Basketball
NBC Sports Network signs its first NCAA conference deal
NBC Sports Network, the cable-television sports channel of US network NBC, agreed an exclusive five-year deal with the Colonial Athletic Association, for rights to American football and basketball matches…
DirecTV Latin America agrees deal to carry NBA TV
Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV Latin America agreed a deal with US basketball league the NBA to begin carrying the NBA TV channel in the region
Octagon treads softly in Africa
IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
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Football: Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation acquired the rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in a deal with the Sportfive agency
Sportitalia acquires Italian national basketball rights
Italian digital sports channel Sportitalia acquired exclusive rights for the Italian men’s national basketball team’s home matches in a two-year deal with the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro, the Ita…
Sport1 facing competition for basketball rights
German sports broadcaster Sport1 is facing competition from three other broadcasters for the rights for the Basketball Bundesliga, the domestic basketball league
IMG and NBA in talks to launch Indian league
Executives from the IMG Media agency have had talks with David Stern, commissioner of US basketball league the NBA, about establishing a professional basketball league in India, Bloomberg reports
French basketball chief wants more exposure
Alain Béral, president of La Ligue Nationale de Basket, the French basketball league, said he was not satisfied by the level of exposure the league is getting in its existing domestic rights deal with …
Setanta partners with Basketball Ireland
Irish pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports agreed a three-year rights deal with Basketball Ireland from 2012 to 2014
Big Sky signs DirecTV deal
US pay-television operator DirecTV agreed a five-year deal with the Big Sky college sports conference for its basketball and American football competitions
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American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
2014 World Cup deals in Asia prove fruitful for Fifa
Asian deals keep World Cup rights fees on the increase
Telenet acquires Spanish basketball rights
Belgian pay-television broadcaster Telenet acquired rights for the Spanish basketball league, the ACB, in a multi-year deal until the end of the 2014-15 season
The Score brings US college programming to Canada
The Fox Sports International media company agreed a multi-year deal to provide at least 250 hours of live US college sports programming per year to Canadian cable-television sports channel The Score
Oklahoma close to regional Fox deal
The University of Oklahoma is close to a carriage deal with the Fox Sports Oklahoma and Fox Sports Southwest US regional cable and satellite broadcasters which will put the university’s sports network i…
NBA deal in New Zealand
New Zealand state broadcaster Māori Television acquired rights for basketball’s NBA in a one-year deal for the delayed 2011-12 season which is set to commence on Christmas day.