Volleyball

FOOTBALL Football: US pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN acquired rights for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The ESPN3

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended its worldwide rights distribution deal with the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball, volleyball’s European governing body, for nine years, from 2013 unti…

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

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has signed a five-year deal, beginning in 2013, for the broadcast and marketing rights to the beach volleyball competitions of the German volleyball federation,…

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.

Japanese commercial broadcaster Fuji TV has acquired rights for the women’s competition of the Volleyball Champions League, which is operated by the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball, the European voll…

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

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has acquired rights for Serie A1, the top division of volleyball in Italy, in a deal with the MP & Silva agency

Grand Prix Sports, a division of the Grand Prix Entertainment agency, has acquired global broadcast rights for professional men’s and women’s indoor volleyball events organised by the USA Volleyball nat…

The MP & Silva agency has struck an agreement to distribute the Italian Volleyball League’s worldwide media rights for four years, from 2012-13 to 2015-16.

US regional sports broadcaster Midco Sports Network has agreed a five-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2016-17, with the University of North Dakota for live rights to matches of the hockey, football, basketball…

Deutschen Volleyball-Liga, the German volleyball league, has approved a proposal for its top division clubs to make financial contributions of €10,000 each per season towards the cost of showing games l…

IMG sees room for growth in China and South East Asia

FOOTBALL Football:Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed a deal with internet platform YouTube for its archive rights.

The international volleyball federation appointed the IMG Media and Dentsu agencies to market worldwide media rights for its events in an eight-year deal, from 2013 to 2020