Media

Euroleague Basketball has announced that today's (Thursday's) Top 16 clash between FC Barcelona and Laboral Kutxa Vitoria will become the first game in European basketball to generate content on the Google Glass wearable computer.

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced a new three-year plan designed to transform its marketing operation into a digital and mobile centric editorial and publishing organisation, making two senior-level appointments to help drive this change.

International Cycling Union (UCI) honorary president Hein Verbruggen has called for the introduction of a ‘World Cycling Series’ for road racing and for the sport to embrace a collective broadcast rights model.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has launched a new website that will allow non-elite runners to measure their performance against their peers around the world.

The Havas Sports & Entertainment agency has struck a strategic partnership with integrated communications agency eventures to enter the Romanian market.

The English Football Association has announced that two of its commercial executives are to leave the governing body to form a sports rights agency.

The German Football League (DFL) has announced that Bundesliga clubs will receive increases in revenues gained from international media rights due to the “positive market outlook” enjoyed by the top division of German football.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is exploring the possibility of scheduling games in the early morning to hit primetime TV audiences in China.

Sports and entertainment marketing agency CSM, a division of Chime Communications, has announced that Alan Pascoe is to step down from his role as president.

UK horse racing stakeholders have joined forces to form a new company designed to enhance the sport’s control and licensing of data.

The German Bundesliga has written a new chapter in its financial success story, with the announcement that the revenues of the top division of German football increased by 4.4 per cent to €2.17bn ($2.95bn) in 2012-13, representing the league’s ninth straight annual turnover record.

Ross Hair, managing director of sports broadcast giant ESPN’s operations in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), is leaving at the end of the month, SportBusiness International understands.

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has confirmed that the 2014 Asia Cup national team cricket tournament will take place in Bangladesh despite widespread civil unrest in the country.

Indy Racing League, the operators of the IndyCar motor-racing series, have filed a lawsuit against the company responsible for promoting the Sao Paulo Indy 300 event in Brazil.

The International Handball Federation (IHF) has announced that Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has become its global media rights partner for the 2015 and 2017 Men’s and Women’s World Championships.

Entertainment talent agency William Morris Endeavor and private equity company Silver Lake Partners have reached a deal to acquire the IMG agency, one of the sports industry’s most influential companies, it was confirmed today.