Basketball

UK pay-television broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN are in talks with the NBA about acquiring rights for the North American basketball league, according to the Daily Mail newspaper

German basic-tier channel Kabel Eins has postponed its next live broadcast of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the country’s domestic basketball league, until 2013 due to poor ratings.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV will provide “unprecedented” coverage of the Chinese Basketball Association’s top league during the 2012-13 season, according to the Infront Sports & Media agency. In

Fiba overhaul to bring national team basketball to home fans and boost value of World Cup; Rights fees up but tough talks still to come in key territories

FOOTBALL Football: Brazilian pay-television broadcaster SporTV acquired the rights to the 2013 Concacaf Gold Cup from the Traffic Sports agency

Video-sharing website YouTube has agreed a deal with US basketball league the National Basketball Association for the live streaming of more than 350 games from the second-tier Development League (D-League)…

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has renewed its rights for the National Basketball Association in a multi-year deal which will expand the level of the league’s coverage in China.

US broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights for sports events featuring Oklahoma State University teams in a deal with the Learfield Sports agency. The length of the multi-year agreement was not disclosed

Italian commercial broadcaster La7 has sublicensed non-exclusive, simulcast rights for Italian Lega Basket Serie A matches to digital sports broadcaster Sportitalia, after gaining permission from the league…

Cypriot pay-television broadcaster Cyta has agreed a deal with the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto, the Spanish basketball association, for rights to all ACB competitions in the current season.

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FOOTBALL Football: Spanish-language US broadcaster Univision Deportes acquired rights for tournaments operated by Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has agreed a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, for the exclusive rights to show NBA basketball in India

French pay-television broadcaster BeIN Sport has acquired exclusive rights in France for NBA basketball in a four-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2015-16

Southern California regional cable-television broadcaster Time Warner Cable SportsNet has acquired rights for US college sports body the West Coast Conference

The next cycle of domestic rights to the US college sports conference the Big East will be opened up to the market after sports broadcaster ESPN failed to reach a deal with the operators of the conference,…