Cycling

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

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

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…

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,…

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 …

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

Classic Italian cycling races Milano-Sanremo and Il Lombardia will move to Sundays next year in a change designed to boost television audiences

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 warns federations that opting for agency cash might not work out in the long term; EBU renewals and losses in 2012

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

South African commercial broadcaster E.tv has acquired rights for this year’s edition of the annual Momentum 94.7 Cycle Challenge.

Marca TV feasting on tasty 'leftovers' as recession bites

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

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

Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe

Raid has to pedal harder to hold on to Giro d'Italia rights

Infront deal at the heart of UCI TV coverage overhaul as EBU gets left behind