Cricket

ECB bullish about growth in North America

FOOTBALL Football: Spanish broadcaster Mediaset acquired rights for Spain national team games until June 2014, and the 2013 Fifa Confederations Cup

Sri Lankan sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has turned down a request from Sri Lanka Cricket, the sport’s governing body in the country, to extend a worldwide rights deal with Asian pay-television b…

The IPL is spawning many copy-cat leagues but rights experts say that they can't all work

Pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports has retained rights for the Asia Cup national team cricket tournament

The Pakistan Cricket Board national governing body has launched a sales process for the rights to its new Twenty20 league, according to the Press Trust of India news agency

Sony-owned broadcaster Multi Screen Media will simulcast the 2013 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament on its Hindi movie channel Max, along with its sports channel Six

The recipe is simple: take the world’s most popular sport in a market primed for growth, get in while the sport, the broadcast market or the economy more generally is underdeveloped, invest in long-term p…

BT pushes Sky on Windies deal

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

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired live domestic rights for the forthcoming One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 cricket matches between South Africa and New Zealand, but…

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC and Cricket South Africa are yet to agree a rights deal for the national cricket team’s forthcoming home series against New Zealand, which begins this F…

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired the media rights for four England cricket tours of the West Indies as part of an eight-year deal, from 2013 to 2020, with global rights-holder Asian pay-television…

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will allow commercial network Nine to take on rights for the Australian Twenty20 Big Bash League if the two broadcasters are able to finalise a new domestic…

Singapore carriage deals show new ESS channel strategy

Australian telecommunications company Telstra is targeting major investments in sports rights to drive its IPTV business, according to The Australian newspaper

FOOTBALL Football: Brazilian pay-television broadcaster SporTV acquired the rights to the 2013 Concacaf Gold Cup from the Traffic Sports agency