Ice hockey league hopes pay-TV will boost gates
Finland’s top domestic ice hockey league, the SM-liiga, is to put most of its matches on to pay-television
Sogecable ends Euroleague backing
Sogecable is to end its financial backing of European club basketball’s top-tier league, the Euroleague
Complaints force Denmark to stop TV privatisation
The privatisation of Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has been called off because of the financial insecurity surrounding the channel
DLA grabs top lawyers in audacious raid on Denton
Audacious raid of 29 sports, media and intellectual-technology lawyers and their clients
Medisaset hopes rights threat is badly targeted
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset could face a tough battle holding on to its lengthy media-rights deals with Italy’s top football clubs
Top IMG-TWI managers redundant
The IMG-TWI agency has made a number of high-level redundancies
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, ice-hockey, golf and Olympic sports
Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
EBU v EBU handball battle
The European Broadcasting Union is planning to bid for the first time for the rights for handball’s World Championships
World handball is catch for viewers
Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
Premiere in talks to buy DSF to gain rights-buying power
German pay-broadcaster Premiere is understood to be in talks to take over the free-to-air sports channel Deutsches Sport-Fernsehen (DSF)