Basketball

Media rights clips from November 13 to 26

José Antonio Sánchez, president of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has outlined plans to strengthen sports channel Teledeporte after admitting the company was taken aback by public reaction to initial proposals to close the service.

Social video platform Grabyo has secured fresh funding of $2m (€1.6m) to aid its future growth, with a “significant majority” of this investment coming from top athletes.

NBA basketball team the Miami Heat has signed a long-term extension to its local television rights agreement with Sun Sports - a regional subsidiary of the Fox Sports network.

Australian public-service broadcaster the ABC has said it will end its state-based and women’s sports coverage as part of budget cuts.

DeporTV, the sports channel operated by the Argentinian government, will launch on the country’s cable-television platforms next week.

The American Sports Network has agreed a deal to broadcast coverage of the 2014-15 Horizon League US basketball collegiate competition.

The Saran Media agency has expanded its multi-year partnership with the NBA by acquiring broadcast rights to the North American basketball league in eight European and central Asian markets.

Sports betting company Bwin will provide live streaming of the 2014-15 Euroleague basketball tournament through its mobile betting product.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has agreed a two-year deal for rights to North American basketball league the NBA.

Media rights clips from October 30 to November 12

Satellite-television provider DirecTV and telecommunications company AT&T have been granted permission to launch Root Sports Houston, a new US network that will provide coverage of Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games, according to the Houston Chronicle newspaper.

Filipino telecommunications company Globe Telecom has agreed a multi-year deal with the North American NBA basketball league to jointly develop and distribute various video content services in the Philippines.

The SportSouth channel operated by regional US pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports South has extended a rights deal with the North American NBA basketball franchise the Atlanta Hawks.

Publishing group Axel Springer has agreed a sublicensing deal with telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom for rights to the Basketball Bundesliga, the top division of the sport in Germany.

The British Basketball League, the UK’s top division of basketball, has agreed a partnership with sports data and media content company Sportradar that will result in a 50-per-cent rise in the number of live games covered by BBL TV, the league’s online streaming platform.