Basketball

Talks for free-to-air rights for French Open talks drag on past the first week of the tournament

The Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2013 shows that second-screen activity is growing, but is it a threat or an opportunity for the sports broadcasting industry?

NTV Plus has secured the Russian broadcast rights to Spain's Liga Endesa basketball division in a deal until the end of the 2013-14 season. 

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten Network is in talks to renegotiate a rights deal for the National Basketball League, the sport’s top division in Australia.

FOOTBALL Football: The CAA Eleven agency agreed two deals in the UK for qualifiers for Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup

Mediaset close to deal for NFL and other rights but Sportitalia needs fresh funds to carry on broadcasting

Rights for Six Nations, Pro12 and autumn internationals on Italian market at the same time

Editor Frank Dunne previews the latest edition of TV Sports Markets

DirecTV Sports and its Root Sports regional sports network has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Mountain West US college sports conference.

Basketball’s Euroleague will have to sell airtime around TVE’s coverage of Real Madrid if it wants to match its old rights fees

FOOTBALL Football: The MP & Silva agency acquired exclusive media rights in Vietnam for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

Editor Frank Dunne previews the latest edition of TV Sports Markets

FOOTBALL Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired exclusive rights for Uefa Euro 2016

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset Spain has acquired domestic rights for the 2014 Basketball World Cup and the EuroBasket tournaments in 2013 and 2015

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has extended a rights deal for the Women’s NBA basketball league in North America. The extension covers six seasons, from 2017 to 2022.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has extended a rights deal for men’s basketball games in the soon-to-be-renamed Big East college sports conference.

Lega Basket Serie A, the top league of basketball in Italy, has launched a sales process for its next cycle of domestic rights

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for games featuring leading Spanish team Real Madrid in the Euroleague club basketball competition

ASO, as usual, holds the key to planned cycling shake-up