Tennis

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, acquired exclusive live rights to next month’s Fed Cup tennis match between Great Britain and Sweden.

The Mediaset media group, which owns Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco, said it would consider bidding for the rights in Spain for the French Open tennis tournament for three years, from 2012 to…

FOOTBALL Football:Brazilian media group Globo acquired the exclusive rights to the Fifa World Cup finals of 2018 and 2022 in a deal with football’s world governing body.

Open 13, an annual ATP World Tour 250 men’s tennis tournament, extended a deal for the IEC in Sports agency to distribute the competition’s worldwide media rights for four years, from 2012 to 2015.

The IMG Media agency launched the world’s first in-flight global 24-hour sports channel on Gulf Air, the Bahrain state airline.

Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price

The Bild newspaper will stream free live coverage on its website of the country’s Davis Cup tennis match against Argentina this weekend.

Live coverage of Sunday’s Australian Open tennis men’s final generated pan-European broadcaster Eurosport’s largest-ever audience for a tennis match. Eu

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport renewed two major tennis rights deals, for the French Open for three years, from 2012 to 2014, and the US Open for six years, from 2012 to 2017

Perform says WTA deal is not a major strategy change

Extra matches key to Perform and IEC hopes for WTA growth

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, acquired rights for Davis Cup tennis in a two-year deal, covering 2012 and 2013, with the International Tennis Federation

US pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel reached a new multi-year carriage agreement with IPTV operator Verizon FiOS TV, ending a four-month blackout

TSN, the Canadian sports broadcaster majority-owned by the Bell Media group, renewed its rights for the Australian Open tennis tournament in a 10-year deal, from 2012 to 2021, with Tennis Australia, the…

BBC strategy comes into focus with Six Nations renewal