Multi-sport

The Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has introduced subscription-based live streaming of cricket and football events on its Starsports.com website.

Media investment management company GroupM has launched a full-service Australian sports rights and sponsorship division that will commence operations with Football Federation Australia as a foundational client.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has said that it plans to be an “active participant” in talks over a new media rights deal for the Big Ten Conference college sports organisation.

US network CBS and cable-television provider Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement to end their programming dispute and resume broadcasts in the New York, Los Angeles and Dallas markets.

The Olympic Council of Asia and the MP & Silva agency have announced that they will establish a new OCA Broadcasting Services company for the continental body's multi-sport events.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV launched a second dedicated sports channel on Sunday, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Fox Sports 1, the new US pay-television channel from the Fox Sports division of the Fox network, remains in talks to seal carriage deals with pay-television operators Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Dish ahead of its launch on August 17, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

The Dentsu advertising agency has expanded its Olympic Games portfolio in Asia by acquiring rights to the 2014 winter Games and 2016 summer Olympics in several territories across the continent.

The owner of IMG, private equity firm Forstmann Little, has said that there “can be no assurance” that the agency will be sold, according to the Reuters news agency.

The French government is considering implementing major changes to its tax law on broadcast rights for sporting events, according to Le Figaro newspaper.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has announced its channels will be available in Betfred stores throughout the bookmaker’s nationwide chain for the next three years.

The Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has acquired rights for the Olympic Games in seven countries in southern Asia.

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1, owned by Constantin Media, has announced that it will launch a new US sports pay-television channel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on August 1.

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Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, will launch three new television channels on July 23.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has agreed a deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia for the right to broadcast highlights of the 2014 winter Olympic Games, along with the exclusive rights to the 2016 summer Olympic Games.