Cycling
Sportsnet snaps up Tour de France rights
Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has acquired exclusive domestic rights for the Tour de France cycling event in a six-year deal, from 2014 to 2019
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From December 6 to December 19
FOOTBALL
Football: Chilean commercial broadcaster Megavisión acquired domestic and international rights for Chile national team matches, in the four years from 2015 to 2018.
YouTube appoints Shift Active Media to manage cycling channel
Cycling media agency Shift Active Media has been appointed by Google to produce content for a new cycling channel, the Global Cycling Network, that will launch on the internet company’s video-sharing w…
EBU and NOS extend Gold Race roles
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the consortium of public-service broadcasters, has renewed its European rights distribution deal for the Gold Race cycling event in the Netherlands for four years,…
EBU strengthens ASO cycling distribution partnership
The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters, has renewed its European rights distribution deal with event organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) for the Critérium …
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From November 22 to December 5
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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
Italian cycling races make Sunday switch to boost TV audiences
Classic Italian cycling races Milano-Sanremo and Il Lombardia will move to Sundays next year in a change designed to boost television audiences
EBU extends Tour of Flanders rights
The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters, has renewed its deal with cycling race organiser Flanders Classics for the European media rights to the Tour of Flanders…
EBU targets top rights and warns about the lure of ‘strategic money’
EBU warns federations that opting for agency cash might not work out in the long term; EBU renewals and losses in 2012
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From November 8 to November 21
FOOTBALL
Football: Brazilian pay-television broadcaster SporTV acquired the rights to the 2013 Concacaf Gold Cup from the Traffic Sports agency
E.tv on the road with South African mass cycling event
South African commercial broadcaster E.tv has acquired rights for this year’s edition of the annual Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge.
Marca TV feeds off ‘leftovers’ to build audience share
Marca TV feasting on tasty 'leftovers' as recession bites
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: From October 25 to November 7
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
IMG Media expands cycling portfolio
The IMG Media agency has agreed a deal with Flanders Classics, the operator of a series of six one-day cycle races in Belgium and the Paris-Brussels cycle race, to distribute media rights for the races
Crisis forcing rights re-think
Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe
Rai has second chance to be part of new RCS vision
Raid has to pedal harder to hold on to Giro d'Italia rights
Infront key to UCI media overhaul
Infront deal at the heart of UCI TV coverage overhaul as EBU gets left behind