Shock EBU win follows quiet deals on other rights
The EBU has quietly notched up several smaller victories this year
Infront: Losing the rights won’t lead to job cuts
The loss of World Cup rights is a major blow for the Infront agency
Fifa did not expect agencies to be so “cautious”
FIFA surprised by what it thought was a cautious approach by bidding agencies.
Fifa signing direct deals with top five plus Scandinavia
Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
How Fifa gave so much to TV and nothing to top agencies
Surprise close to FIFA bidding process
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Horse racing, boxing, tennis and more
Horseracing: UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football
Football: Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)
La Liga viewing falls 6 per cent as audiences split
Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s La Liga in 2004-05 fell six per cent on the previous season.
What’s a fair price for a listed event with no glamour?
Spanish television’s near-black-out of the final of football’s domestic cup competition, the Copa del Rey, last weekend underlined a major flaw in Spanish listed-events legislation
Italy leads in winning new pay-homes
Pay-television operators in four of the five top European television markets reported growing numbers of subscribers