The BBC have relinquished their NFL rights after British Eurosport secured a deal to show Monday Night Football for this season.

BBC had already lost their Super Bowl rights to Channel 4 but have now lost Monday Night Football as well.

Beginning with a double header this coming Monday night, seek British Eurosport will air a total of 17 MNF match-ups this season as part of a two-year agreement with the National Football League.

David Kerr, generic Managing Director of British Eurosport said: “NFL Monday Night Football is iconic sport television and represents an exciting new addition to our channel line-up. After a strong summer on the channel with events like the Tour de France and French and US Open tennis, ambulance NFL Monday Night football is another premium property to take us into autumn.

“We will show all our Monday Night Football Live and in HD and support that with extended highlights played out in UK prime time the following night. We now cannot wait to start our live broadcasts in just a few days’ time with the Philadelphia Eagles at the Washington Redskins and the Houston Texans at the San Diego Chargers.”

Alistair Kirkwood, Managing Director of NFL UK, said: “We are very pleased to be entering a new agreement with British Eurosport to bring one of our top games of the week to fans in the UK. The NFL has never been more popular in the UK and the breadth of our broadcast partnerships is a testament to the excitement of our sport. British Eurosport will help us to give our fans even more NFL football and will enable us to reach out to new fans.”

The new season of Monday Night Football begins with the Philadelphia Eagles visiting the Washington Redskins (kickoff 00:10 a.m.), followed by the Houston Texans at the San Diego Chargers (kickoff 3:20 a.m.).

South African television company SuperSport has announced a new broadcast deal to showcase the National Football League (NFL).

The NFL season kicked off last night and SuperSport will broadcast both Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football with the first game broadcasting on September 9.

SuperSport will cover the AFC Playoffs in January, which includes two Wildcard games, two Divisional playoff games and the AFC Championship game. The Pro Bowl, the NFL’s All-Star Game, will also be broadcast on January 26, 2014.

SuperSport’s coverage of the NFL season concludes with the Super Bowl, the world’s biggest annual sporting event, on February 2, 2014.

“We are very happy to bring this to SuperSport viewers,” said Brandon Foot, head of Legal and Acquisitions at SuperSport, which is broadcast on the DStv platform. “This is a new and exciting partnership with the NFL, which ranks as one of the most professional leagues on the planet.”

Paris St Germain’s latest partnership with the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) which has gained widespread criticism is part of the French club’s growing plans in the Middle East according to president Nasser al-Khelaifi.

The deal, under which the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) will pour up to 200 million euros ($262 million) a year into the club until 2016, will be made official in the next few weeks, Khelaifi told the sports daily L’Equipe.

The deal is worth twice the club’s revenues for the 2010-11 season and has been questioned with some pundits suggesting it was out of proportion.

PSG will have to comply with the new fair play regulations which require clubs not to spend more than they earn. They are expected to submit the contract to the European governing body UEFA in the coming months.

“The contract with QTA is justified because PSG’s influence in the whole region, not only in Qatar, has been important,” Al Khelaifi said in his first public comments on the issue.

“We have been building an international brand. This deal is a strong symbol. Qatar have benefited a lot from their investments in PSG.”

PSG have spent more than 250 million euros in transfers since the Qatari fund QSI bought the club in June 2011, far more that they can afford to if they only spend what they earn.

The advertising contract will help them continue their expansion and will be retroactive, meaning it will finance their off-season high-profile signings, such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva or new recruit Lucas Moura.

“We will keep on investing,” Khelaifi said.

“It’s necessary to become one of the great European clubs. Other clubs have invested for 20 years. We have been there for a year and a half and now we must stop pouring money? It would be unfair.”

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The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has announced that the BBC has become the latest broadcaster to add Squash coverage to its programming after confirming an agreement to cover next month’s AJ Bell PSA World Squash Championship in Manchester.

The significant deal is a further endorsement of the sport’s appeal just days before squash discovers if it will be added to the 2020 Olympic Games programme.

The championship, the premier annual event on the PSA World Tour, will take place at Manchester Central, the city’s former Manchester Central railway station, from 26 October to 3 November – and will feature the world’s leading players from countries including Britain, Egypt, Australia, France, Germany, Colombia, South Africa, Spain, Botswana, Malaysia, Netherlands, Switzerland, India, Finland, Hong Kong, USA and more.

The new agreement will lead to coverage from the quarter-final stage across the BBC Red Button, IPTV and the BBC Sport website. There will also be a highlights programme following the event on BBC Two & BBC Two HD.

“In our bid to become an Olympic sport, PSA has been investing heavily in TV coverage of squash through SquashTV and to now have the BBC on board is obviously a major boost,” said PSA CEO Alex Gough.

The news means that the BBC joins a broad range of international broadcasters which have covered the elite PSA World Series events since the launch of SquashTV – including Sky Sports, Eurosport, Astro, PCCW, Starhub, SkyNet, Ten Sports, Orbit Showtime Network and One World Sport.