Basketball
Eurosport extends Eurocup basketball deal
Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has renewed its deal with Euroleague Basketball for rights to the Eurocup, European club basketball’s second-tier competition, for a further three years, from 2…
StageUp expands Italian basketball advisory role
The StageUp agency has been appointed to act as the media and marketing adviser for Lega Basket Serie A, the top league of basketball in Italy
ARD and ZDF shake up Sunday coverage
German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have agreed to adapt their schedules to provide coverage of the country’s top ice hockey, handball and basketball leagues on Sundays.
ESPN agrees international basketball rights renewal
The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has renewed its deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN, for a further three years, from 2013 to 2015
ESPN to tip off new FIBA basketball deal
US cable-television broadcaster ESPN is close to a media rights deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) for coverage of six of the governing body’s national team tournaments, according t…
Sky renews British Basketball League rights
UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has renewed a rights deal for coverage of the British Basketball League, the country’s top division of basketball.
Crisis forcing rights re-think
Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe
TVE loses out, ERT holds on, as talks go to tip-off
TVE loses Euroleague rights to Marca TV but ERT hangs on to Greek league in late deals
Sportsman to sell international rights for German basketball
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
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From September 27 to October 10
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 pounces for Euroleague 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…
Sportitalia renews Euroleague basketball for three more years
Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia has renewed its deal for Euroleague basketball for a further three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Israel’s Channel 10 renews deal for Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Euroleague games
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.
Atlantic 10 strikes new long-term rights deals
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,…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From September 13 to September 26
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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.
NBL scores first multi-year rights deal in New Zealand
Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights for Australia’s National Basketball League, the country’s top basketball division.
Spanish basketball league finalises domestic TV coverage
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…
Fox Sports strikes deals with Big 12 universities
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…