Athletics
Nine and Fox renew with Athletics Austalia
National governing body Athletics Australia has renewed its deals with commercial television network Nine and pay-television operator Fox Sports for rights to the Australian Athletic Tour for the 2013…
CCTV snaps up IAAF rights
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has acquired rights for International Association of Athletics Federations events, including the athletics World Championships, in a six-year deal from 2014 to 2019
Crisis forcing rights re-think
Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe
BBC Worldwide agrees London Marathon rights extension
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has extended its deal to distribute the international rights for the London marathon for three years, from 2016 to 2018
Eurovision and VGTRK to produce 2013 World Athletics Championships
Eurovision, the television producer operated by the European Broadcasting Union, and Russian state broadcaster VGTRK have agreed a deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations to host…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From August 30 to September 12
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Football: Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TV Norge acquired rights for Norway’s five away qualifying games for the 2014 Fifa World Cup from the Sportfive agency.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From July 26 to August 29
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Football: Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports acquired the US rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier home games of all Concacaf nations, excluding the US and Mexico
Canal Plus to produce and show French athletics meetings until 2016
Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired the domestic broadcast and production rights for events run by the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme, the French athletics federation, in a four-year dea…
ARD and ZDF renew national athletics rights agreement
German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renewed their rights deal with the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband, the German athletics association, until 2016
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From June 14 to June 27
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Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed a deal in Germany with commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1
Orange Sport sells Diamond League rights to Canal Plus
Canal Plus has acquired rights for the remaining eight meetings on the 2012 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League calendar from fellow French pay-television broadcaster Orange…
European Athletics extends EBU rights distribution deal
European Athletics has extended a deal for the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters to sell the governing body’s media rights outside Europe.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From May 17 to May 30
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Football: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC renewed its highlights rights for the English Premier League for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16, in a deal worth £179.
BBC acquires Great Run series rights
The Nova International agency extended its contract with UK public-service broadcaster the BBC for the media rights to the Bupa Great Run athletics series until 2018
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From May 3 to May 16
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Football: Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport acquired delayed rights for all 31 matches from the Uefa Euro 2012 tournament. Eurosport can show each game 24 hours after the match has taken place
Big 12 agrees new deal with ESPN
US sports broadcaster ESPN has verbally agreed a new 13-year deal with college sports conference the Big 12 covering the period 2013 to 2025
ARD and ZDF extend athletics deal
German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renewed their rights deal with the organisers of the Istaf Berlin annual athletics meeting until 2015