Basketball

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights to national team events organised by the International Basketball Federation (Fiba).

Kreatif Media Karya, the digital business arm of Indonesian media conglomerate Elang Mahkota Teknologi, has agreed a rights deal with the NBA.

Social media platform Twitter has agreed new rights deals with the Women’s National Basketball Association and Major League Lacrosse, along with adding a host of additional sporting content to its portfolio.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has sealed a rights deal for the Women’s National Basketball League.

North American basketball league the NBA has entered into a content partnership with Brazilian telecommunications company Vivo.

The Chinese Basketball Association has ended its media-rights relationship with the Infront Sports & Media agency and will launch a sales process for a new deal.

Euroleague Basketball registered significant year-on-year increases in its television and online audiences in the 2016-17 season following a restructuring of the body’s top league and the EuroCup competition.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has extended its rights agreement with Israeli pay-television broadcaster The Sports Channel.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended a rights distribution and commercial partnership with the Chinese Basketball Association.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights to new basketball and netball competitions launched by sports promotional company Matchroom Sport.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has acquired rights for Big3, a new three-on-three, half-court basketball league that will launch on June 25.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has agreed a nine-year extension to its long-running rights agreement with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has agreed a five-year extension to its rights deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) for the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Australia’s Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) has teamed up with live sport and event broadcasting company Sportscast Australia to stream live coverage of its upcoming Grand Final Series via social media platform Facebook.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has signed a multi-year extension to its rights deal for the Basketball Tournament, a US-based amateur, single-elimination competition.

The Chinese division of North American basketball league the NBA has entered into a multi-year partnership with Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo.

SFR Sport lost out to French pay-television rival Canal Plus in a fourth round of bidding for International Basketball Federation (Fiba) events this month, but added the Diamond League to its slow-growing portfolio of sports rights.

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets analyses media-rights in the US major leagues: MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL