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Football
Europe

The Deutsche Fussball Liga cancelled the €3 billion (£2.4 billion), six-year deal it had agreed for its media rights with Leo Kirch’s Sirius group.
Athletics
Europe

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.

Darts
Europe

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.

American Football
Europe

Football: The German Football League awarded the rights for the Bundesliga in several three-year deals covering 2006-07 to 2008-09.

American Football
Europe

• Formula One: German free-to-air sports broadcaster DSF acquired a package of Formula One rights for the 2007 season.

Football
Europe

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 reportedly acquired the rights for football's Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.

Football
Europe

Sky Italia this week threatened legal action for breach of contract
Football
Europe

England’s Premier League agreed to end British Sky Broadcasting’s monopoly over live coverage of league games as part of a compromise deal with the European Commission which is expected to end the com…
Europe

The collapse last year of Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula 1 digital “super signal” service was thought likely to end the coverage of the sport on pay-television.

Kirch, ITV Digital and the Football League, NTL, the Scottish Premier League, the aftermath of the ISL affair at Fifa. Quite apart from self-inflicted wounds at Fifa and also at Vivendi/Canal Plus