Bundesliga fires rights starting gun
The German football league last week launched the sales process for the Bundesliga rights from 2006-07 to 2008-09
Cable’s hard job to beat Sky
The long-awaited merger of the UK’s two cable operators will, according to the companies, create a major challenge to British Sky Broadcasting
Premiere loses private equity cash as rights battle looms
Private equity company Permira’s decision to all but pull out of German pay-broadcaster Premiere reflects a fear that the broadcaster may not grow its subscriber base much further
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: US Sports, cricket, rugby, motorsports
Baseball: US cable broadcaster ESPN renewed its long-term deal for Major League Baseball, paying $2.368bn (£1.3bn/€1.9bn) over eight years, from 2006 to 2013.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Latest football deals
Football: UK broadcasters ITV and British Sky Broadcasting acquired the rights to the Champions League for a further three seasons, from 2006-07 to 2008-09
Channels battle over who pays what for Olympics
Japan’s five main commercial broadcasters have agreed to pay a bigger share of the country’s television rights fees for the winter Olympics
BSkyB set to buy live rights of cricket World Cup
British Sky Broadcasting is close to a deal for the live rights for cricket’s 2007 World Cup in the West Indies
Sportfive holds on in musical chairs for rugby rights
Sportfive is to sign a four-year deal for the international television rights for rugby union’s Six Nations
US, Russia in late deals for launch of A1 racing series
The A1 Grand Prix organisers were this week finalising last-minute television deals
CME set for star sports role after buying Galaxie
acquisition of cable and satellite sports channel Galaxie Sport, the main cable sports channel in the Czech Republic and Slovakia