Ice Hockey

Basketball: UK pay-television channel ESPN extended its rights for the Euroleague to cover the 2011-12 season in a deal with the league

Ice Hockey: Regional sports channel Fox Sports Florida agreed a multi-year extension to its rights agreement with the NHL’s Florida Panthers. The new deal begins in the 2012-13 season.

Action Sports: Apparent Gravity Media, the US-based distributor of action sports and motorsports, agreed a number of deals for the Dew Action Sports Tour and the AMA Motocross Championship series

Medge/AMI break the ice with big MTG deal in the Nordics

Why CAA Sport pulled the plug on Kenyon after just two years

Athletics: The International Association of Athletics Federations secured deals for the 2011 World Championships and other events in the Netherlands, Iceland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Albania, Croatia…

Touchdown for ESPN but cloud over NHL...Traffic busy in Mexico...Lega channel may annoy Sky...Sucker punch on Primetime

Medge/AMI race the clock in Europe but NHL is relaxed

Bridgepoint's Infront set to be a more aggressive rights player

Football: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights to China’s international football teams for three-and-a-half years, from July 23 until the end of 2014, from the Chinese Football Association’s com…

NHL rights lost to Medge/AMI. Orange Sport deal fallen through. Shadows over ESPN

Five-year deal helps NHL to big increase but 'it could have made more,' one bidder says

Asian Games: The organising committee of the 2014 Asian Games signed memorandums of understanding with Korean networks KBS, MBC and SBS, provisionally appointing them as host broadcasters

Europe on standby as NHL is on the verge of awarding rights

Digital Plus furious about YouTube Copa ... Urhotv looking for partners ... ESPN looking at UK revamp

Ice Hockey: Internet operator Laola1.tv acquired live rights for the Kontinental Hockey League, streaming its first match on September 15

Industry alive to the news of CAA takeover of IMG

NHL exploring several innovations to increase rights fees in Europe, Africa and the Middle East