Pay-TV looks for listed-events help from new minister
Hopes new minister may lead to changes in the listed-events legislation now being drafted by parliament.
Tennis (mostly, Hewitt) breaks up Aussie Rules
Australian Open tennis accounted for nine of the Top 30 most popular sports events on Australian television
ARD fails to sell on Olympics rights
Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity
ABU fails to win support for bid
ABU failed to draw enough support from its larger members to submit a bid.
Free-TV is based on winning league
German pay-operator Premiere will launch a free-to-air channel only if it wins the main free-to-air highlights rights for the Bundesliga
Extra exclusivity will help Premiere and Bundesliga
the German football league is thought likely to win a big increase in rights fees for the live Bundesliga rights
Rai’s blow-by-blow story of what happened in league talks
Rai backs up its claim that it struck an in-principle deal with the league
Dentsu leads Asian shortlist
Fifa, world football’s governing body, has drawn up a shortlist of five agencies for the Asian television rights
Rai attacks ‘bad faith and illicit action’ of Italian league
Rai has made an astonishing attack on the integrity of the Italian football league and its president, Adriano Galliani
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball and more
Basketball: The US National Basketball Association signed deals for this season with 164 broadcasters covering 215 countries.