Cycling

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

FOOTBALL Football: US Spanish-language sports broadcaster Univision Deportes acquired rights to the Germany and France national teams’ home qualifiers for the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

The Union Cycliste Internationale, the international cycling union, has awarded the Infront Sports and Media agency its international media rights for four years, from 2013 to 2016

FOOTBALL Football: Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TV Norge acquired rights for Norway’s five away qualifying games for the 2014 Fifa World Cup from the Sportfive agency.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has acquired rights for this month’s Tour of Britain cycling event, which will be shown on digital channel ITV4.

The IMG Media agency will sell rights for the Giro d’Italia and other Italian cycling races after sealing a global distribution deal with event operator RCS Sport for the next eight years, from 2013 t…

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed a deal in Germany with commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1

US cable channel the NBC Sports Network has renewed its deal with the Amaury Sport Organisation for rights to the Tour de France cycle race for a further ten years, from 2014 to 2023

The organisers of cycling’s Vuelta a Burgos have agreed a number of deals in Spain and France for rights to the five-day stage race, including a deal with Marca TV, the digital-terrestrial channel managed b…

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.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus agreed a three-year deal with the Union Cycliste Internationale, the international cycling union, to televise a host of UCI events

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

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

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has acquired rights for the 2012 edition of cycling’s Giro d’Italia in a deal with Rai, the Italian host broadcaster and distributor of the worldwide media rig…