SportBusiness Staff

Moving coverage exclusively to pay-television in the UK helped Formula One Management increase its media-rights value significantly last month.

France Télévisions last month retained its hold on Six Nations and national team test rugby in long-term deals, increasing its fees for both by about 25 per cent.

Greek public-service broadcaster ERT’s acquisition of two blue-chip properties is a sign it may slowly be recovering after its short-lived closure almost two years ago.

Revenue versus exposure: the dilemma which every rights-holder grapples with.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for this year’s Six Nations Championship

Formula One Management this month extended a deal with Telenet for Flemish-language rights in Belgium, earning a decent rights-fee increase.

Introducing a professional format from 2016-17 and reducing its number of clubs has helped the Belgian second-tier football league more than double the value of its media rights.

Huge debts and the threat of insolvency mean TVR, Romania’s public-service broadcaster, is struggling to agree a deal for this summer’s Euro 2016.

For years it was rare to see Chinese delegates other than CCTV making their way to Sportel. But more and more have come as excitement over the expansion in the China's sport sector has spilled outside its borders to become perhaps the most interesting story in global sports rights.

Interview with Ludwig Sneyers, chief executive of the Belgian Pro League, on the decision to change the structure of Belgian professional football and the deal with Proximus for the revamped second tier.