SportBusiness Staff

Fifa has earned a surprisingly strong fee for 2018 Fifa World Cup rights in Greece from ERT after taking back the rights from the Taf Sports agency.

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets previews the TVSM Global Report that will be published online next week.

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets previews the TVSM Global Report that will be published online next week.

Ah, Sportel… the annual Monte Carlo trade fair that guarantees great rumours, little sleep, more rumours and the certainty of a sore head each morning.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE’s aggressive move to acquire all Spanish national team matches at the end of last month is evidence the country’s advertising market recovering from its 2013 low.

Uefa has increased the value of Europa League media rights in Scandinavia by about 45 per cent in deals with TV2 in Norway and Discovery Communications in Denmark and Sweden.

The Six Nations last week secured a long-term deal with media company NBCUniversal in the US, but is understood to have suffered a 40-per-cent fall in the value of its rights in Italy.

The ATP is earning less from market-by-market sales in the Nordics than from the last cycle’s pan-regional deal, after Modern Times Group added World Tour rights in Norway and Sweden to its earlier Denmark deal last month. A separate deal has also been agreed in Finland with MTV3.

Lagardère Sports agreed to pay an increase of about 50 per cent for international Asian Table Tennis Union rights in its renewal at the end of last month.

The organisers of the ADAC GT Masters German motor-racing series have secured an increase of at least 40 per cent in a new domestic rights deal with Sport1.