SportBusiness Staff

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

The two agencies selling the international television rights for Italian football’s Serie A have brought in about €84 million

The Swiss football league is hoping to replicate the success of some of its European neighbours

The Sportfive agency has begun talks in Italy for the television rights for football’s Euro 2008

Canal Plus’s successful legal challenge against the award of the French League Cup rights to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions could backfire

Sogecable is likely to keep its stranglehold on Primera Liga pay-television rights in new deals next summer

Premier League Offering

The English Premier League is almost certain to bring in more money from its next round of domestic rights sales

Israeli pay-per-view company Charlton has won another battle in the war with the Sport 5 pay-channels

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall