SportBusiness Staff

Korean broadcaster which went it alone seeks to recoup rights costs

Malaysian agency M-League Marketing is understood to have agreed a deal worth about $13 million (£6.7 million/€9.8 million) for English Premier League football’s mobile and internet clips package.  Th

Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock

Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock

Government intervention to force free-to-air coverage

EPL remind video-sharing site that it is unhappy about continual copyright breaches

IMG may be target

EBU broadcasters believe that fee expectations of rights-holders are unrealistic

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s Primera Liga in 2005-06 fell five per cent on the previous season.