Netball

The Sportfive International agency has agreed a deal with the Netball Singapore governing body for the host production and global distribution rights to its 2013 Nations Cup competition.

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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports has signed a three-year rights deal with the England Netball organisation for the Superleague club competition and all home international games.

The Australian Sports Commission has said a government-funded digital television sports channel dedicated to the country’s lower-profile sports could be launched as soon as 2014, according to the Australian Financial Review.

FOOTBALL Football: Polish pay-television broadcaster Orange Sport acquired exclusive rights for the English FA Cup and England national team home matches

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS and pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports have acquired rights for the ANZ Championship, the top netball division in Australia and New Zealand

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS and pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will acquire rights for the ANZ Championship, the top netball division in Australia and New Zealand, according to the…

The Netball New Zealand and Netball Australia national governing bodies, which organise the ANZ Championship, are in talks over a rights deal that would ensure every game of the club competition is shown…

FOOTBALL Football: The IMG Media agency agreed a three-year extension to its deal for the media rights on aeroplanes and ships for English Premier League football, from 2013-14 to 2015-16

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, football’s European governing body, appointed newly-created company CAA Eleven as its global sales agent for the European Qualifiers package of media rights.

Netball South Africa, the sport’s governing body in the country, has reached a five-year rights deal, from 2013 to 2017, with African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport.

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

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Handball: EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, signed media-rights deals with broadcasters in several territories

Kickboxing: German commercial broadcaster Sat.1 agreed a two-year deal, beginning immediately, for rights to the fights of World Kickboxing Association world champion Christine Theiss

The launch of Australia’s first-ever free-to-air sports channel, One, is an unprecedented challenge to leading pay sports broadcaster Fox Sports.