Multi-sport

The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a five-year extension to its multimedia rights contract with the Army Athletics US college sports organisation.

Media rights clips from September 4 to 17

Organisers of the Baku 2015 European Games have awarded media rights for the multi-sport event to pay-television broadcaster DigiSport in Romania and Hungary and sports broadcaster Sport 10 in Belgium.

Media rights clips from August 21 to September 3

Turkish sports broadcaster NTV Spor has acquired rights for the inaugural European Games multi-sport event, which will take place next year in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has acquired rights for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Media rights clips from July 24 to August 20

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired exclusive rights to the 2018 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, which will be hosted by the Gold Coast in Queensland.

The German Olympic Committee (DOSB) is to expand its online sports television channel and rebrand it from Splink.TV to Sportdeutschland.TV.

Media rights clips from July 10 to July 23.

Digital sports video agency SendtoNews has entered into a media partnership with Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC for its coverage of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event.

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, is to distribute programming to international audiences through a subscription channel on video-sharing website YouTube.

British-based satellite and broadcast production company SIS Live has claimed it is still owed £29m (€36.4m/$49.6m) from its production contract for the 2010 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, which was hosted in New Delhi, India.

US cable-television operators Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have agreed carriage deals with sports broadcaster ESPN for the SEC Network, a new pay-television sports channel dedicated to college sport’s Southeastern Conference.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has extended its wholesale agreement for its Sky Sports channels with telecommunications company TalkTalk, while its Sky Sports News channel will undergo a relaunch.

The European Athletics continental governing body is to stream live coverage of its 2014 European Athletics Championships multi-sport event via its official website.