Basketball

Turkish pay-television operator Digiturk has acquired rights for the Euroleague Basketball club competition.

The renewal of the National Basketball Association’s domestic media-rights deal, expected later this year, is the most eagerly awaited in US sport and will no doubt be the biggest of the year.

Media rights clips from May 15 to May 28

Interviews with Matt Brabants, senior vice president of global media distribution and business operations, and Elsa Memmi, vice president of global media distribution across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on the NBA’s global media rights strategy.

Australian public-service broadcaster the ABC has agreed a deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) for the rights to the 2014 World Cup and World Championship for Women.

Regional US broadcasters Wave-TV and WHAS-TV have acquired exclusive local rights in Louisville to show the Atlantic Coast Conference college sports competition.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 last month picked up rights to the Fiba World Cup, which takes place in August, in a cash and airtime deal.

Media rights clips from May 1 to May 14

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has struck a long-term deal with IMG Media for the agency to distribute rights to the governing body’s 3x3 competitions, which feature three players per team.

Euroleague Basketball has confirmed that UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport and Bulgarian pay-television broadcasters TV Plus and Film Plus HD have acquired rights for the 2014 Final Four tournament.

Euroleague Basketball has partnered with Russian online sports media platform Championat.com to make it the official online destination in Russia for its Euroleague continental club competition.

Euroleague Basketball has partnered with Spanish media company AS in an agreement that makes AS.com the official online destination in Spanish for the Euroleague continental club competition.

Organisers of the Gavitt Tipoff Games have announced that broadcast coverage of the new US collegiate sports competition will be split between international sports broadcaster ESPN, the Fox Sports division of US network Fox and the Big Ten Network (BTN) cable television broadcaster.

Media rights clips from April 10 to April 30

US college sports conference the Ivy League has appointed the Lagardere Unlimited agency to aid its search for a new broadcast rights deal.

The BBL, organisers of the Basketball Bundesliga, have launched a media rights tender for the top division of German basketball.