Tennis

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.

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

US network NBC has renewed its rights agreement with the Fédération Française de Tennis, the French tennis federation, for rights to the French Open, until 2024.

US pay-television provider Comcast has requested a stay of the decision by the country’s media regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, that it discriminated against pay-television broadcaster T…

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa agreed rights deals in Ukraine for the Champions League and Europa League for the period 2012-13 to 2014-15

The Federal Communications Commission, the United States media regulator, has ordered pay-television provider Comcast to place pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel on its digital basic tier

The MP & Silva agency has agreed an exclusive deal with the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, an ATP World Tour 250 series event, to distribute the international rights to the tournament

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights for ATP World Tour 500 and ATP World Tour Masters 1000 men’s tennis tournaments from now until the end of the 2013 season.

WTA drops Eurosport to go market by market

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in Oceania for the Champions League and Europa League in the 2012-13 to 2014-15 period.

US pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN attracted its largest-ever audience for a tennis match for its live coverage of the men’s final of Wimbledon on July 8, according to audience measurement company N…

Dutch pay-television channel Sport1 has acquired rights for the Women’s Tennis Association’s Premier Tournaments in a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, with the IEC in Sports agency.

The MP & Silva agency has reported that this year’s French Open, for which the agency was selling the European media rights for the first time, enjoyed an 18-per-cent increase in its hours of coverage a…

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights for ATP World Tour Finals tennis for a further two years, from 2012 to 2013

Silva set to add a year to Open deal

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has sold out its advertising inventory for its Indian coverage of the Wimbledon tennis championships and could earn revenues of Rs50 million (€710,000/$893,000) f…