Cricket

FOOTBALL Football: The English Premier League agreed deals for its domestic live rights with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB and telco BT for the seasons 2013-14 to 2015-16, worth a total of £3.

Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired live rights in the Middle East and North Africa to English domestic cricket’s Twenty20 league, for the 2012 season, from ESPN Star Sports, the r…

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has confirmed a renewal of a rights deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board for seven years, from 2012-13 to 2018-19, covering the territories of Asia,…

Pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports has rebranded its cricket channel following the loss of its rights deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) governing body

ECB enjoys healthy rights-fee increase in new ESS deal

FOOTBALL Football: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC renewed its highlights rights for the English Premier League for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16, in a deal worth £179.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has appointed a three-member committee to create the tender process for its global media rights following the conclusion of its previous agreement for the rights with the Nimbus…

Sri Lankan terrestrial sports broadcaster the Carlton Sports Network has continued its spending spree on cricket rights, agreeing a three-year deal for the Sri Lankan national team rights from 2012 to…

The England and Wales Cricket Board is set to announce a new rights deal worth $200 million (€153 million) with pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports.

ESS bucks the trend and gets increase from Sky

FOOTBALL Football: Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport acquired delayed rights for all 31 matches from the Uefa Euro 2012 tournament. Eurosport can show each game 24 hours after the match has taken place

Sri Lankan terrestrial sports broadcaster the Carlton Sports Network has acquired rights for the Sri Lankan Premier League, the new Twenty20 cricket competition

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is on the verge of completing a buyout of Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN’s stake in their jointly-owned pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports, according to …

FOOTBALL Football: Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired rights for more than 250 international football matches in the lead-up to the 2014 Fifa World Cup

The Nimbus Communications agency is interested in acquiring the rights for a proposed new Twenty20 cricket league operated by the Pakistan Cricket Board, according to the national governing body’s chairman, Z…

ESPN withdrawal leaves Murdoch well placed for drive into India and China; BCCI deal confirms ESS demise

Public-service broadcaster Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation acquired the broadcast rights to the International Cricket Council’s World Twenty20, which will be hosted by the country later this year.