Boxing

FOOTBALL Football: US pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN acquired rights for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The ESPN3

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2012 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets W

US cable-television broadcaster WealthTV has acquired rights for the Prizefighter ‘Welterweights III’ boxing event tomorrow (Saturday).

FOOTBALL Football: Chilean commercial broadcaster Megavisión acquired domestic and international rights for Chile national team matches, in the four years from 2015 to 2018.

UK free-to-air digital channel Loaded TV has acquired rights for the British light-middleweight fight between Brian Rose and Sam Webb this Friday, December 14

FOOTBALL Football: The IMG Media agency agreed a three-year extension to its deal for the media rights on aeroplanes and ships for English Premier League football, from 2013-14 to 2015-16

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) is providing live streaming of the final stages of the 2012 Youth World Boxing Championships on its official YouTube channel

Matchroom Sport, the promotion company owned by Barry Hearn, has acquired the UK rights for the WBA super middleweight boxing title fight between Mikkel Kessler and Brian Magee on Saturday in Denmark

UK pay-per-view channel Primetime TV has received 700 complaints from people who were unable to watch UK boxer Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko on Saturday night due to technical i…

UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights for events featuring the British Lionhearts team in the World Series of Boxing, an annual competition organised by the International Amateur Boxing…

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Primetime signs up Hatton

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

German commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired rights for five future boxing bouts involving either Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko

UK pay-per-view channel Primetime has acquired rights for Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko on November 24. Primetime will charge viewers in the UK and Ireland £14.99 (€18.50/$23.87)

The International Amateur Boxing Association has appointed fight sports programme distributors, Fighting Spirit, as the distribution partner for the World Series of Boxing, an annual boxing competition…

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.