Horse Racing

The NBC Sports Group, part of US media company NBCUniversal, has renewed an exclusive rights deal for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks horse racing events.

Specialist pay-television broadcaster At The Races has struck media rights deals with the operators of the Ripon and Plumpton racecourses in the UK.

UK pay-television broadcaster At The Races has launched in-house streaming division Sport Mediastream and is seeking to utilise the service to target the broader sports-rights market away from domestic and international horse racing.

Hong Kong pay-television provider Now TV has announced it will launch a dedicated horse racing channel on February 2.

Turf TV, the horseracing channel for betting shops in the UK and Ireland, has struck a deal to show its coverage of US racing in bookmaker William Hill’s betting shops.

New Zealand’s monopoly totalisator organisation the TAB, which is operated by the New Zealand Racing Board, has announced that it will make its racing channels Trackside and TAB TV solely available through pay-television operator Sky New Zealand from April 14.

The UK’s Racecourse Media Group has reappointed Simon Ellen as chairman of the media rights organisation for a further four years with effect from December 31, 2013.

Horse racing pay-television channel Racing UK has launched a television anywhere service.

Media rights clips from 24 October 6 November

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand’s national free-to-air channel Prime has agreed a rights deal with horse racing’s NZ Racing Board.

The UK’s Racecourse Media Group has appointed Adam Binns as its new director of broadcast and production.

Australian pay-television horse racing channel TVN is planning to move from pay-television operator Foxtel to the country’s free-to-air digital platform in a bid to extend its reach, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Horse racing pay-television channel Racing UK has launched a pay per day service on digital-terrestrial platform Freeview.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has become the exclusive sales agent for horse racing pay-television channel Racing UK’s commercial television service.

Media rights clips from 25 July to 30 August 

Pay-television broadcaster At The Races and news and sports coverage provider SIS have retained the rights to Irish horse racing after agreeing an extended deal with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses.