Snooker

Snooker

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to show live coverage of the Champion of Champions, a new snooker event organised by the sport’s global governing body World Snooker.

American Football

FOOTBALL Football: The MP & Silva agency acquired exclusive media rights in Vietnam for the 2014 Fifa World Cup
Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board has agreed a deal with YouTube for live coverage of this summer’s five Ashes Test matches between England and Australia to be shown via the video-sharing website in m…
Golf

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has signed a new broadcast rights and production deal with sports promotion company Matchroom Sport
Baseball

FOOTBALL
Snooker

UK commercial broadcaster ITV has confirmed it has acquired rights for the World Open snooker tournament, which will start on Monday, February 25 in Haikou, China
Snooker

Why Barry Hearn loves the BBC

Baseball

FOOTBALL
Snooker

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has retained rights to three major snooker championships operated by the World Snooker governing body
Australian Rules Football

FOOTBALL Football:Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed a deal with internet platform YouTube for its archive rights.
Snooker

Snooker commentator Clive Everton said the IMG Media agency had been given too much power as an independent producer of the BBC’s snooker coverage, in criticism of the handling of the termination of h…
Rugby League

Motorsport: The Disney-owned ABC network extended its rights deal for the Indy Car Series with rights-holders the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Car Series for a further six years, from 2013 to 2018
Rugby Union

Rugby Union: Canadian sports broadcaster TSN acquired the rights for the 2011 and 2015 editions of the Rugby World Cup in a deal with Rugby World Cup Limited, the event rights-holder
Snooker

New deals in China reflect Asian boom time in snooker

Snooker

Olympic Games: The International Olympic Committee agreed media-rights deals in France, Germany and Korea for the Olympic Games (see story this issue)
Snooker

World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn on new deal with IMG Media.

Rugby Union

Motorsport: Formula One Management agreed deals with incumbent rights-holders in Germany, Russia and Israel for media rights for the Formula One motor-racing series
Athletics

Athletics: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the exclusive live television and internet rights for the Diamond League in a five-year deal brokered by the IMG agency