Tennis

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…

US pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel could dramatically expand its distribution, possibly prompting a sale by its owners, if it is successful in a case pending before the Federal Communications…

Online video technology company Ooyala is partnering with the All England Lawn Tennis Club to broaden distribution of video content from the Wimbledon tennis championships, which began on Monday

Canal Plus has acquired rights for the remaining eight meetings on the 2012 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League calendar from fellow French pay-television broadcaster Orange…

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport attracted a record average audience of 1.1 million viewers for its live coverage of the 2012 French Open tennis tournament

FOOTBALL Football: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC renewed its highlights rights for the English Premier League for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16, in a deal worth £179.

Video sharing website Dailymotion agreed a deal to stream live content from the 2012 Wimbledon tennis championships

A spokesperson for TVNZ said the New Zealand public-service broadcaster was in talks about acquiring rights for this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships amid increasing speculation that the 2012 edition m…

FOOTBALL Football: Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport acquired delayed rights for all 31 matches from the Uefa Euro 2012 tournament. Eurosport can show each game 24 hours after the match has taken place