Olympic Games

Greg Stremlaw has been named as the new head of the CBC Sports division of Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC.

The Saran Media agency has acquired rights in Turkey for the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

Interview with Timo Lumme, the International Olympic Committee’s director of television and marketing, on Olympics rights deals signed in Asia, Mena and sub-Saharan Africa.

The International Olympic Committee has extended its Asian broadcast rights partnership with the Dentsu agency to take in the four editions of the Olympic Games from 2018 to 2024.

BeIN Media Group has acquired exclusive rights in the Middle East and North Africa region for the four editions of the Olympic Games from 2018 to 2024.

Media rights clips from July 9 to 22

German media company ProSiebenSat.1 has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in the DOSB New Media arm of the German Olympic Committee (DOSB).

US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has said it will take full ownership of pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport through a €491m ($541m) deal with French commercial broadcaster TF1 Group.