Basketball

Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe

TVE loses Euroleague rights to Marca TV but ERT hangs on to Greek league in late deals

The Sportsman Media Group has agreed a deal to sell media rights outside Germany for the German Basketball Bundesliga in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, football’s European governing body, appointed newly-created company CAA Eleven as its global sales agent for the European Qualifiers package of media rights.

Marca TV, the Spanish digital-terrestrial channel managed by the Mediapro agency, has acquired rights to show games involving Spanish team Unicaja Malaga in the Euroleague, basketball’s top European c…

Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia has renewed its deal for Euroleague basketball for a further three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 10 has renewed a rights deal with Euroleague Basketball for coverage of Israeli team Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s matches in the competition.

US college sports conference the Atlantic 10 has agreed a new nine-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2020-21, with the NBCUniversal media group and new eight-year rights agreements, from 2013-14 to 2020-21,…

FOOTBALL Football: US Spanish-language sports broadcaster Univision Deportes acquired rights to the Germany and France national teams’ home qualifiers for the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights for Australia’s National Basketball League, the country’s top basketball division.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE’s coverage of the domestic basketball league under a rights deal beginning this season will include one match per week on Saturday and the first-choice game on S…

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has sealed a 10-year broadcast partnership with the University of Oklahoma and agreed rights deals with fellow Big 12 sports conference colleges Texas Tech University…

FOOTBALL Football: Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TV Norge acquired rights for Norway’s five away qualifying games for the 2014 Fifa World Cup from the Sportfive agency.

US Asia-focused sports network One World Sports has extended a rights deal for coverage of Chinese Basketball Association tournaments with the Infront Sports & Media agency, the national governing body’s g…

US college sports conference the Big 12 has confirmed a new 13-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2024-25, with sports broadcaster ESPN

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended its commercial partnership deal with the Chinese Basketball Association for the CBA League, for a further five years, from 2013 to 2017