Boxing
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball, boxing, F1, golf, Paralympic, swimming and more
Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.
Football still in a league of its own
Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.
New Primetime fills coverage gap
Primetime launched last week in an attempt to exploit the increasing amount of sport missing out on live television coverage.
TV Rights Deals 2: The latest boxing, basketball, motorcycling and squash deals
Boxing: German public service broadcaster ARD extended its television rights deal with boxing promoter Sauerland for one more year, taking it to the end of 2012, paying about €14m ($21m).
FASTRACK
Next week’s bidding deadline for English Premier League rights in most of Asia will kick off a frenzied period of activity for the league, with tenders being issued shortly afterwards in Greater China, Africa, Australasia and Europe.
TV Rights Deals 2: All the latest boxing, cricket, ice hockey and motosport deals
American Football: The IMG agency agreed a deal to distribute the television rights of the National Football League in certain international territories in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America…
TV Rights Deals 2: Rugby World Cup 2011, baseball, cricket, golf and more
Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.
TV Rights Deals 2: Basketball, Winter Sports and more
Basketball: Brazilian commercial broadcaster Globo is to acquire the rights for the new, top-flight domestic basketball league, Novo Basquete Brasil, for R$1.5m (€474,000/ $633,710) a season.
Fox Turkey’s Olympic delight
Fox Turkey, the News-owned general entertainment channel that last week won the rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics, hopes that the acquisition will help it fulfil its ambition of becoming Turkey’s most popular network.
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Fast Track is facing tough talks with broadcasters for the 2010 Commonwealth Games rights
TV RIGHTS DEALS 2: Greece, Cycling, MotoGP and more
Basketball: Greek pay-operator NetMed acquired the rights for A1 league club PAOK in a three-year deal from 2008-09 to 2010-11
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NHL, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, golf and more
Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m).Â
Why sports market should take off
Increased competition from Polsat for top sports rights could drive competition
Warren puts live undercard fights on internet ppv
First live internet boxing for UK from Ricky Hatton undercard
Where have all the stars gone?
Most experts put it down to a lack of boxing on network TV in the US
No-fees ESPN ‘set to quit boxing’
From next month, ESPN will no longer pay promoters $50K Friday Night Fights rights fee