Basketball

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has agreed a four-year deal for the exclusive rights to the Euroleague basketball competition in France.

US media and technology corporation Comcast has said it is prepared to bid for Comcast SportsNet Houston, the exclusive home of Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games, if it can force a sale of the financially-troubled regional sports broadcaster.

MCS stocks up with French league football and US college sport

Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus has agreed a three-year deal with Euroleague Basketball for the exclusive rights to the European club competition.

The Italian basketball league, Lega Basket, has agreed rights deals with state broadcaster Rai and the MP & Silva agency.

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a deal to become the new official broadcast partner of the British Basketball League for its 2013-14 season.

NBA basketball franchise the Sacramento Kings have announced a broadcast partnership for the 2013-14 season with News10, the local affiliate of the ABC network.

Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has agreed a deal with MP & Silva for the exclusive retail broadcast rights to French Ligue 1 football, along with other sports properties held by the agency.

French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a three-year deal to broadcast National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball.

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Chinese internet operator Sina, owner of the Weibo microblogging service, has agreed a deal with the NBA to stream one game per day from the North American basketball league, according to Bloomberg.

Basketball Australia has agreed a new rights deal with public-service broadcaster the ABC encompassing the Women’s National Basketball League and the women’s and men’s national teams.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has agreed a sublicensing deal with the Fox Sports division of the Fox network to televise basketball games from the Big East college sports conference from 2013-14 to 2018-19.

South Africa's new professional basketball league, the Basketball National League, has agreed an exclusive five-year deal with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport.