Rugby Union

Basketball

Media rights clips from June 11 to 24

Rugby Union

Welsh Culture and Sports Minister Ken Stakes has called upon the UK government to press for the Six Nations rugby union championship to remain protected as a free-to-air television event.

Rugby Union

A host of Australian and New Zealand news agencies have said they will boycott the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England due to coverage restrictions relating to video match highlights of the national team tournament.

Rugby Union

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired exclusive rights for three of Scotland’s warm-up games for the 2015 Rugby World Cup national team tournament.

Rugby League

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, a division of media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, has struck a deal to acquire pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports Asia.

Football

International broadcaster Eurosport agreed a spate of rights deals late last week as it continues to invest heavily in locally-relevant content.

Rugby Union

Premiership Rugby has reported a six-per-cent increase in the audience for its live matches on UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport.

Football

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has sealed a raft of new rights deals in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Singapore encompassing football, tennis, golf and rugby union.

Air Racing

Media rights clips from May 14 to 27

Rugby Union

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has secured the live rights to show this year’s World Rugby Under-20 Championship.

American Football

Media rights clips from April 30 to May 13

Rugby Union

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has acquired exclusive rights in Germany to the 2015 Rugby World Cup national team rugby union tournament.

Rugby Union

World Rugby, rugby union’s global governing body, has earned a strong increase in the value of its Rugby World Cup media rights in Latin America.

Rugby Union

Strong commitments – in both financial and attention terms – offered by the RDA Television and IEC in Sports agencies persuaded World Rugby to eschew larger players in its search for a new distribution partner for its second-tier properties.

American Football

Media rights clips from April 16 to 29

Rugby Union

The Irish government has today (Friday) stepped up its plans to ring-fence Ireland’s games in the Six Nations rugby union championship for free-to-air television.

Rugby Union

The French second-tier rugby union league, the Pro D2, took advantage of strong competition for its rights to secure a massive fee increase in new deals agreed last week.

Baseball

Media rights clips from March 26 to April 15