Europe
LimeLight enters administration after sale of mass participation unit
UK sports marketing group LimeLight Sports Ltd has entered into administration after more than 30 years of trading
TNT Sports commits to multi-year coverage of Premiership Women’s Rugby
UK pay-television broadcaster TNT Sports has acquired rights to Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR), England’s rebranded domestic rugby union club competition.
Norwegian athletes gain upper hand in skiing image rights dispute
Norwegian ski team athletes have won a breakthrough ruling in pursuit of greater control of their image rights in a long-running dispute with the Norwegian Skiing Association (NSF)
Zilliacus prepares Inter Milan bid after raising $2.5bn
Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus has announced that he has raised $2.5bn (€2.33bn) through his investment company XXI Century Capital and is ready to launch a bid to buy Inter Milan.
APM replaces tourism body as AS Monaco’s main shirt sponsor
Ligue 1 club AS Monaco has signed up fashion jewellery brand APM Monaco as its new main partner, a deal that ends the local Tourist & Convention Authority’s short spell as the holder of front of shirt sponsorship rights.
BeIN tweaks NBA deal in France to include all Wembanyama games
BeIN Sports has renegotiated its media rights contract in France with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to ensure all matches of Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs are shown live by the pay-television…
EXCLUSIVE: Puma extends LaLiga ball supply deal for five years
Puma has agreed a five-year extension to its ball supplier agreement with Spain’s LaLiga and LaLiga 2, SportBusiness can exclusively reveal.
Viaplay, TV2 settle Premier League clips case out of court
Subscription broadcaster Viaplay and its Norwegian commercial rival TV2 have settled their legal dispute out of court over the use of clips from English Premier League matches
Uefa club competition rights on the market in Greece
Greece is the next market off the block for Uefa and the Team Marketing agency as they look to close out the club competition media rights sales process ahead of the new cycle
RedBird ponders Toulouse FC sale as Uefa hones in on multi-club ownership
RedBird Capital's ownership of Ligue 1 club Toulouse FC could be the first casualty of Uefa's new clampdown on multi-club ownership in European football
Lions to stay on Sky for 2025 tour of Australia
UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has maintained its long-standing connection with the British & Irish Lions by securing rights to the team’s 2025 tour of Australia.
Danish Cup rights hit market in six-year tender
An invitation to tender for Danish football’s Pokalen knockout cup competition, covering 2024-25 to 2029-30, has been issued.
The Jockey Club brings in CSM as its principal sales agency
The CSM Sport & Entertainment agency has today (Wednesday) been tasked with attracting more sponsors for the major events organised by the Jockey Club, the UK’s largest commercial horse racing organisation.
IMG brings in Moffitt from BBC to grow studios business
IMG has strengthened its fast-growing studios business with the appointment today (Wednesday) of Ian Moffitt to the newly created role of senior vice-president of business development
Former Brentford commercial director Parkinson joins Alpine
The Renault-owned Formula 1 team Alpine has appointed former Brentford executive James Parkinson as its new UK commercial director
Ziggo locks in Diamond League rights in Netherlands to 2029
Pay-television broadcaster Ziggo Sport has announced it is to remain the home of World Athletics' top-tier Diamond League and associated series in the Netherlands for the remainder of the decade.
De la Vega earns LaLiga promotion after commercial successes
Spain's LaLiga has promoted its commercial and marketing director Jorge de la Vega to the position of deputy executive general director
Serie A CEO defends new domestic TV deal, talks up piracy fight and international plans
Luigi De Siervo, chief executive of Lega Serie A, has hit out at critics who claimed the recent €4.5bn ($4.8