Basketball

Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal

Spanish basketball’s ACB Liga is facing a financial crisis as it struggles to agree a new television contract for next season.

European basketball’s Euroleague has been thrown a lifeline by Spain’s fourth-largest bank.

Channel to be broadcast free via satellite throughout Middle East

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy

Lega Basket, said that it was “very disappointed” that state broadcaster Rai had dropped its planned coverage of two key games from the climax to the domestic season.

The French basketball league, Ligue Nationale de Basketball, has negotiated a much improved television rights fee for coverage of the domestic championship.

Basketball’s Houston Rockets and baseball’s Houston Astros are the latest US major league sports teams to launch their own regional sports channel.

Europe will be watching very closely to see whether basketball’s breakaway Euroleague can survive its present financial crisis.

The true extent of the financial crisis facing European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague became clear last week.

European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague is facing a severe financial crisis that could threaten its future.

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…

7TV, one of Russia’s two big terrestrial sports channels and the only major channel still privately-owned, is undergoing a major restructuring to survive.

JCS Sports is challenging Charlton’s $4.5 million deal with Israeli basketball’s Premier League.

A series of legal battles and other bitter disputes between the top players in television sport in Israel is creating uncertainty and confusion for Israeli television,

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster