Golf

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive live rights for the Wimbledon tennis championships in Denmark and retained a host of high-profile golf properties in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club (R&A) could be forced to sell at least some of the rights to the British Open to pay-television if it is to increase the media rights value of the competition.

Online subscription service Coliseum Sports Media continued to shake up the previously moribund New Zealand market with the acquisition of the US PGA Tour this month.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand will target more domestic sports content after signing a series of domestic rights deals in recent days, according to spokeswoman Kirsty Way.

Global media interest in last weekend’s Ryder Cup finale confirmed the extent to which the competition has become one of sport’s blue-riband events. Few events have the power to hold the US and Europe in thrall over three days.

Interview with Rupert Hampel, managing director of European Tour Productions, on the importance of the Ryder Cup to European Tour media rights.

Interview with Scott Seymour, SVP managing director of golf at the Octagon agency, about the strength of the European Tour and to what extent it is being propped up by the Ryder Cup.

Golf’s PGA Tour has linked up with online subscription service Coliseum Sports Media to establish a new direct-to-customer service in New Zealand.

Organisers of golf’s Ryder Cup have launched an official channel for this year’s tournament on video-sharing website YouTube.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand will not renew a rights deal for coverage of various golf events.

Media rights clips from August 21 to September 3

Golf’s PGA Tour has launched a new paid channel on video-sharing website YouTube that will allow fans to access archived video footage from historic tournaments.

Golf’s PGA Tour has extended a rights deal with pay-television broadcaster ESPN International in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The PGA Tour has agreed a deal with iTunes to make the golf tour’s video archive of major tournaments available on the Apple on-demand viewing service.

Media rights clips from July 10 to July 23.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB is to dedicate one of its Sky Sports channels to coverage of the 2014 Ryder Cup golf tournament.