Basketball
Basketball Australia strikes new deal with Foxtel and ABC
Basketball Australia’s new agreement with domestic broadcasters Foxtel, the pay-television operator, and ABC, the public broadcaster, will see all 60 games of the 2020 Chemist Warehouse WNBL season shown l…
Fanseat lands Spanish basketball rights in one-season deal
Sports streaming platform Fanseat has acquired rights to Spanish top-tier basketball league and cup competitions for exploitation in France and Denmark
NBA avoids dramatic fee drop with Eleven renewal in Belgium
The NBA has avoided a severe decrease in fee for its rights in Belgium despite an absence of competition, renewing with Eleven Sports Network for the 2020-23 cycle at a slight reduction compared to the previous cycle.
Telefónica agrees modest fee rise in NBA renewal in Spain
Spanish telco Telefónica has agreed to pay a modest per-season uplift to renew its exclusive NBA rights in Spain for the 2020-23 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.
IMG Arena retains Lega Basket betting rights in long-term deal
IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has agreed a long-term rights deal with Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the top tier of Italian club basketball
BCL lands first North American rights deal with beIN
Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights to Europe’s Basketball Champions League in the US.
A1 Bulgaria takes over domestic basketball rights
Pay-television broadcaster A1 Bulgaria has acquired domestic rights to the Bulgarian National Basketball League (NBL) for the next three seasons
CCTV to air Game 5 of NBA Finals, ending year-long hiatus
CCTV, the state-run Chinese broadcaster, will air the fifth game of the NBA Finals series, marking the first time an NBA game will be broadcast in China since a controversial tweet damaged the nation’s r…
French basketball seeks ‘reboot’ in one-season free-to-air domestic deals
The French Basketball Federation (FFBB) sacrificed domestic media-rights income from its club competitions in order to reboot the sport in free-to-air deals with digital terrestrial broadcasters L’Équipe TV and ‘Sport in France’, SportBusiness Media understands.
Telefónica holds fee steady in Liga ACB basketball renewal
Spanish telco Telefónica will pay an unchanged fee to renew its rights to the nation’s top tier of domestic basketball after agreeing a three-season extension with the Liga ACB.
Telefónica secures NBA renewal in Spain for three-season cycle
Telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its NBA broadcast rights in Spain for a further three-season cycle, taking the pair’s relationship to 25 years.
Eleven keeps hold of NBA rights in Belgium
Subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports has retained its linear broadcast and digital rights in Belgium to North America’s NBA in a “multi-year” deal announced today (Wednesday).
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SN1 turns to Content Arena to distribute Lega Basket international rights
SN1 Trading, the consultancy and media rights agency, will use the Content Arena platform to distribute its recently acquired international rights to the top tier of Italian domestic basketball
SN1 Trading to sell international rights to all live Lega Basket Serie A matches
All live matches from Italian basketball’s Serie A are to be marketed to international broadcasters for the first time in the two-year agreement with SN1 Trading, the rights arm of Munich-based consultancy S…
Lega Basket and Infront finalise three-year agreement
Lega Basket Serie A, the governing body for Italian basketball’s top division, has finalised a three-year agreement with Infront that affords the agency the title of exclusive marketing, sponsorship a…
Telefónica’s Movistar Plus retains Liga ACB rights to 2023
Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its exclusive domestic broadcast rights agreement with Liga ACB, the top tier of Spanish basketball, for another three seasons.
Lack of competition slows pay-TV fee growth for Italy’s Lega Basket
Lega Basket, the governing body of top tier Italian basketball, saw its domestic pay-television media-rights income growth slow considerably in the 2020-22 rights round, driven by a significantly less competitive market.
Spanish basketball’s ACB agrees three-season Venezuelan TV deal
The Asociación de Clubes Españoles de Baloncesto (ACB), the governing body for the top-tier of Spanish domestic basketball, has concluded a three-season broadcast rights deal in Venezuela with telco I…