Rugby Union

Rugby Union

Representatives of the Irish, Italian, Scottish and Welsh rugby union clubs that participate in the sport’s top European competition, the Heineken Cup, will be asked to approve measures to allow English a…
Rugby Union

Pitch wins Six Nations battle
American Football

FOOTBALL Football: Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TV Norge acquired rights for Norway’s five away qualifying games for the 2014 Fifa World Cup from the Sportfive agency.
American Football

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
Rugby Union

UK broadband operator BT Vision, owned by former state telco BT, has acquired rights for the French Top 14, the top-tier domestic rugby union competition in France, according to the Daily Mail newspaper
Rugby Union

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has renewed a rights deal for the Top 14 French domestic rugby union tournament. The deal will run for two seasons, from 2012-13 to 2013-14
Rugby Union

Italian digital sports channel Sportitalia has been appointed by Federazione Italiana Rugby, rugby union’s governing body in Italy, to serve as the host broadcaster for the Pro12 tournament’s games in …
Rugby Union

BBC Alba, the Gaelic-language channel operated by UK public-service broadcaster the BBC, has eased concerns over its commitment to Scottish rugby union by announcing enhanced coverage plans for Edinburgh…
Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired exclusive UK rights for live coverage of the British & Irish Lions rugby union team’s tour to Australia in 2013.
Rugby Union

African rugby union’s governing body, the Confédération Africaine de Rugby, appointed African media company LC2 Médias as its media partner in an agreement designed to boost the growth of the sport on t…
Athletics

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed a deal in Germany with commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1
Rugby Union

South African commercial broadcaster E
Rugby League

French rugby makes modest gains

Cricket

FOOTBALL Football: The English Premier League agreed deals for its domestic live rights with pay-television broadcaster BSkyB and telco BT for the seasons 2013-14 to 2015-16, worth a total of £3.
Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired the rights in France to the French national rugby team’s upcoming Test matches away to Argentina.
Rugby Union

Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has renewed its rights deal with the Fédération Française de Rugby for the domestic rights to the national team’s Test rugby union matches, in a four-year deal, …
Football

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions said it had tabled an offer for the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup media rights, but had decided against bidding for the rights for Uefa’s new European Qua…
Football

'Strange' meeting in Brussels