SportBusiness Staff

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

NTV Plus set to acquire domestic rights for the Russian Premier League.

South Africa’s Premier Soccer League wants to renew its domestic television rights deal a year early to bring in a higher fee.

English football’s Premier League is likely to split the sale of its delayed-as-live television rights into two packages in its forthcoming tender.

Premiere, the German pay-television broadcaster, has salvaged something of its reputation following its deal with DSF.

Advent International has begun a recapitalisation of its stake in the Sportfive agency.

Shock departure of chief executive of IMG's TWI television division.

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency. 

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.

Media Partners & Silva set to take a long-term stranglehold on the international rights of Serie A clubs.