SportBusiness Staff

UK pay-operator’s English Premier League deal was year's largest television sports-rights deal.

Spanish pay-TV operator's dominance in football rights market under threat after regulator accuses it of being a monopoly.

But proposed extension deal for top-tier domestic football rights needs approval of football association and competition authority.

Decision to hand back golf rights allows rival to recover monopoly on top Tour golf and launch golf channel.

Television audiences for the UK’s traditional sporting showpieces fall in 2006, according to TV Sports Markets survey.

On the three days before Christmas, Modern Times buys four years of football, three years of golf and two new channels.