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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Actions Sports, basketball, ice hockey, MMA, tennis and more
Action Sports: Apparent Gravity Media, the US-based distributor of action sports and motorsports, agreed a number of deals for the Dew Action Sports Tour and the AMA Motocross Championship series
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 4: Mixed martial arts, motorsport, rugby, tennis and more
Mixed Martial Arts: US pay-television channel Spike TV will stream live on its website preliminary bouts from season five of the US mixed martial arts promotion Bellator Fighting Championships
Fastrack: Issue 15:15
Neo's Euro 2012 deal part of wider strategy...Traffic-Full Play dispute continues...Astro pays more for World Cup...Live football on Facebook
MP & Silva faces tough talks with Spanish channels
MP & Silva set for long rally with Spanish broadcasters
Perform’s ‘watershed’ WTA deal
WTA deal with Perform has industry asking: is this a game-changer or a one-off?
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 4: Rugby World Cup, snooker, surfing, ATP tennis and more
Rugby Union: Canadian sports broadcaster TSN acquired the rights for the 2011 and 2015 editions of the Rugby World Cup in a deal with Rugby World Cup Limited, the event rights-holder
WTA targets growth and merger
WTA confident of big rights bump but long-term focus is still on merger with the ATP
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Olympic Games, snooker, Wimbledon, French Open and more
Olympic Games: The International Olympic Committee agreed media-rights deals in France, Germany and Korea for the Olympic Games (see story this issue)
MTG’s Viasat and Al Jazeera cast long shadow over ESPN
NHL rights lost to Medge/AMI. Orange Sport deal fallen through. Shadows over ESPN
Fastrack: Issue 15:12
Digital Plus furious about YouTube Copa ... Urhotv looking for partners ... ESPN looking at UK revamp
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Olympics, rugby union, tennis, US college sport and more
Olympic Games: Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 acquired the television, internet and mobile rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics in a deal with the Sportfive…
Heard the rumour? CAA will buy IMG. Nonsense, says IMG
Industry alive to the news of CAA takeover of IMG
EBU loses on free-to-air promises
MP & Silva pays 50-per-cent increase for French Open rights and gives free-to-air coverage guarantees
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 4: French Open tennis, ATP and WTA tennis, volleyball and more
Tennis: The MP & Silva agency acquired the European rights outside France for the French Open in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2017, with the Fédération Française de Tennis, the French tennis federation. T
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 4: Tennis: US Open, Wimbledon, WTA Tour, ATP tour and more
Tennis: The IMG agency agreed a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, to advise on the distribution of the media rights for the US Open in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) and Australia,…
BBC dismisses reports of F1 and Wimbledon cuts
UK public service operator denies sports properties are for the chop as report underlines value of F1 and Wimbledon.
Short deal suits Eurosport and WTA, for now
One-year extension to existing deal signed after failure to agree on price of longer deal.
FASTRACK: News in brief, Issue 15:7
Serie A punch-up to be followed by survey ... Starhub stocks up channel ... Danish delay after lowball bids ... Hearn takes Prizefighter to US