TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Asian Games, F1 and more
Asian Games: Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan acquired the exclusive rights in India for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, paying $400,000 (£215,000/€313,000), an increase of $50,000 on what it paid for the previous Games.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics and football
Olympics: The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics
Team will exploit Benelux battles
The importance of choosing the right time and place for rights negotiations
RTR loses league’s terrestrial rights
RTR is the big loser in the latest round of television deals
Now Zee blocks India’s TV cricket deal with ESS
Row over Indian cricket board’s television rights took a further twist this week
Canal Plus: We want all top rights
Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters
Seven looks for revenge as top sports go to market
Australia’s television networks are gearing up for the first of several fierce rights battles
Why Saban will turn TV marathon into a sprint
Haim Saban is in advanced talks to sell his majority stake to the Axel Springer publishing group.
Uefa deal is unusual but ‘intelligent’
The award of the Euro 2008 rights to Sportfive can be seen as another sign of the trend for sports federations to take greater control of their rights.
Sportfive: Just what we wanted
Euro 2008 was the big contract the agency was looking for