SportBusiness Staff

English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.

Mediapro is bidding aggressively for the television rights of Barcelona and other top Spanish football clubs.

Rights fee trebles, still falls short of asking price

Anxious wait to see whether state broadcaster CCTV will finally pay market rates

FIFA: World Cup rights were not Caribbean Football Union's to sell

Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from  the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired a package of free-to-air rights for English football’s Premier League in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10. 

Cricket: Indian channel Zee Sports acquired the worldwide television, radio and broadband rights to 25 one-day internationals featuring India to be played at neutral venues around the world in the next five years.

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.