Basketball

Following three seasons without free-to-air coverage, Australia’s Women's National Basketball League will be aired by public-service broadcaster SBS in the 2018-19 season.

Australia’s National Basketball League has secured a three-season rights partnership with commercial broadcaster Nine.

The NBA will again earn an increase in Poland after pay-television broadcaster NC Plus secured rights to the 2018-19 season last month.

Cypriot telcos Cablenet and PrimeTel have agreed a deal through which they will bring their sporting content under one roof from 2019
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Sports-streaming service FloSports has agreed a multi-year rights deal with college sports organisation the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
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Sports-streaming service FloSports has reached an agreement with international sports broadcaster Eleven Sports to distribute a programming feed of a range of events to its subscribers in the United States
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UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport is set to lose its rights to North American basketball league the NBA and mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship
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US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a multi-year extension to its rights deal with college sports organisation the Big South Conference

The US Department of Justice has moved to take fresh action against the takeover of US media company Time Warner by telco AT&T by appealing a federal judge’s approval of the deal last month.

Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus has struck a one-season extension to its rights deal for North American basketball league the NBA

The NBA has increased the value of its rights in Greece via a two-season renewal with pay-television broadcaster Cosmote this week.

The Turkish Basketball Federation has today (Thursday) sealed a record domestic rights deal for the Super League (BSL) with telco Türk Telekom, which will position the top-tier club competition as its flagship sports product.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote TV has sealed a multi-year extension of its rights deal for North American basketball league the NBA.

Türk Telekom has agreed a shock deal for rights to the country’s Basketbol Süper Ligi, unseating beIN – the league’s preferred partner – with a huge bid.

Digital sports-media company Perform has acquired a package of rights in Italy for Lega Basket Serie A, the country’s top division of basketball.

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote TV has signed a two-season extension to its rights deal with North American basketball league the NBA.

North American basketball league the NBA has agreed a partnership with Times Studio, a digital video content subsidiary of Indian media company Times Internet.

Euroleague Ventures – the joint venture between Euroleague Basketball and the IMG agency – has agreed a one-season extension to its deal with telco Telefónica in Spain and is close to a new deal in Germany.