Tennis

FOOTBALL Football: Chilean commercial broadcaster Megavisión acquired domestic and international rights for Chile national team matches, in the four years from 2015 to 2018.

The MP & Silva agency has agreed an exclusive deal with the Kremlin Cup, an ATP World Tour 250 series event, to distribute the international rights to the tournament, in a five-year deal, from 2014 to…

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has renewed its rights for the Chennai Open men’s tennis tournament to cover the 2012-13 edition.

Dutaret says events business can grow despite the crisis

EBU warns federations that opting for agency cash might not work out in the long term; EBU renewals and losses in 2012

Tennis Australia, the governing body for the sport in the country, is expected to put out to tender its next cycle of free-to-air domestic rights for the Australian Open tournament, according to the Australian…

Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe

FOOTBALL Football: Uefa, football’s European governing body, appointed newly-created company CAA Eleven as its global sales agent for the European Qualifiers package of media rights.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired media rights and become the host broadcaster for the annual tennis tournament operated by the ATP World Tour, the men’s professional tour, in Düsseldorf, Ge…

Asian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has extended a rights deal for live coverage of the US Open tennis tournament for four years, from 2013 to 2016

MCS advances in France and beyond

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