Tennis

Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has agreed a deal with MP & Silva for the exclusive retail broadcast rights to French Ligue 1 football, along with other sports properties held by the agency.

Media rights clips from 29 August to 11 September
 

The International Tennis Federation, the sport’s world governing body, has relaunched online streaming service DavisCup.tv, which provides live coverage of the Davis Cup men’s national team tournament.

Fédération Française de Tennis, the governing body of tennis in France, has launched a domestic tender split into three separate packages for the next cycle of media rights to the French Open tournament.

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus is to slash the price of its Supersport package of sports channels.

Fédération Française de Tennis, the governing body of tennis in France, has announced that it will launch a domestic tender for the next cycle of media rights to the French Open tournament on September 10…

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport is close to deals for the rights in France to the Wimbledon tennis championships and ATP men’s tournaments, according to L’Équipe.

Media rights clips from 25 July to 30 August 

Mobile television service Zenga TV has sealed the exclusive mobile rights to the 2013 US Open tennis championships in India.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has launched a new television service in Germany to bolster its coverage of the US Open tennis championships.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the US Open tennis tournament.

US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable will offer a free preview of pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel to customers who cannot access the CBS network during the US Open tennis tournament due of a contract dispute.

The US Tennis Association has begun talks on alternative broadcast plans for the US Open tournament if CBS remains off the air in the New York area due to the network’s ongoing dispute with cable-television operator Time Warner Cable.

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for the 2013 French Open as Nadal wins record-breaking eighth Roland Garros title

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in the UK following an outstanding and historical weekend for British sport

German free-to-air television channel Sat.1 Gold is seeking to enhance its tennis rights portfolio following the success of Sabine Lisicki at the Wimbledon championships.

Tennis Australia vice-president Harold Mitchell has defended the governing body’s decision to sell the latest domestic media rights for the Australian Open to commercial broadcaster Seven without a tender.

US pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel has requested a rehearing of its court claim that pay-television provider Comcast unfairly placed the channel in a lower tier than Golf Channel and other channels in which it holds an interest, according to the Variety newspaper.