TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup
Football: Fifa signed deals across Europe for the the World Cup in 2010 worth an overall €1bn (£666m). In some territories it also signed deals for the 2014 World Cup. T
Women attract year’s top football TV audiences
The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway
Rai finally takes Champions League rights off Mediaset
Italian state broadcaster Rai won the live, free-to-air rights for football’s Champions League, taking them from commercial rival Mediaset
World Cup rights once again go to pay-TV channel
Portuguese pay-television channel Sport TV acquired the rights for football’s 2006 World Cup
Japanese TV told to double fee
Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi is being asked to pay at least twice as much to extend its present deal for the rights for the Asian Football Confederation
SABC faces hard task to get change in listed events
Call by public-service broadcaster SABC to change the country’s listed-events law
Canadian TV in uphill race for world swimming
Canada’s French-language public-service SRC is racing against time to organise the host-broadcasting of the world swimming championships
Sports move gives Telecom Italia strategic presence
The plan of commercial broadcaster La 7 to launch a 24-hour sports channel on its digital-terrestrial platform will help the company make the most of its investment in sport
Never mind tyre fiasco, F1 can still win US success
CBC to re-new Formula One deal
IMG looks for big growth, despite World Cup jolt
IMG may be going places, despite the setback of failing to win the World Cup rights