Cycling

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…

IMG Media unseats Rai Trade

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…

Giro d’Italia promoter RCS Sport is close to a deal with the Association International des Groupes Cyclistes Professionels, an umbrella group of cycling’s leading teams, that will give the teams a sha…

The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters, renewed its deal with the Lagardère-owned event management company Upsolut Event to distribute the worldwide media rights …

US sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network, a subsidiary of the NBC network, has renewed its rights deal for cycling’s Vuelta a España, for four years, from 2013 to 2016.

FOOTBALL Football:Pan-European cable and satellite sports broadcaster Eurosport extended its rights deal for the Africa Cup of Nations for the next two editions of the tournament, in 2013 and 2015

The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of European free-to-air broadcasters, renewed its deal with the Amaury Sport Organisation and Unipublic agencies for rights for the Vuelta a España cycle …