Horse Racing

State-owned media company Dubai Media Incorporated has reached a four-year rights deal, from 2013 to 2016, with Racecourse Media Group, which controls the media rights of 30 British racecourses, and English…

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.

GBI Racing, a joint-venture between the Racecourse Media Group and At the Races, which distributes the international betting rights for British and Irish horse racing, has agreed a deal with the Nicosia…

FOOTBALL Football: Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports acquired the US rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier home games of all Concacaf nations, excluding the US and Mexico

IMG Sports Media has signed a deal to produce horse racing coverage on UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 for four years, from January 2013 to December 2016

US pay-television broadcaster HRTV has purchased rights for horse racing’s Breeders’ Cup in what has been described as a “multi-year deal” with Breeders’ Cup Limited, owner of the thoroughbred racing se…

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

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has agreed a number of new international rights deals for this year’s Royal Ascot horse racing event.

FOOTBALL Football: The English Premier League agreed deals for its domestic live rights with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB and telco BT for the seasons 2013-14 to 2015-16, worth a total of £3.

Australian pay-television horse racing channel TVN has acquired the rights to all thoroughbred racing held in the south-eastern states of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s two largest horse racing m…

TSN, the Canadian sports broadcaster majority-owned by the Bell Media group, acquired live rights for the Belmont Stakes horse race in a three-year deal, from 2012 to 2014, with rights-holder NBCUniversal…

Racing New South Wales, horse racing’s governing body in the Australian state, has told country and provincial racing associations to sell their next cycle of media rights to Australian pay-television h…

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

Racing UK, the specialist horse racing pay-television channel, has acquired exclusive live rights for this year’s Kentucky Derby, which takes place this coming Saturday.

The Global BBC iPlayer, the overseas pilot video-on-demand subscription service from UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, acquired internet rights in certain territories for this year’s London marathon a…

FOOTBALL Football:Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed a deal with internet platform YouTube for its archive rights.