TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf and more
Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Women’s golf gets bulk of TV fees from Asia
The Ladies Professional Golf Association tour is bringing in the bulk of its television-rights fees from Asia
French handball goes out to tender
The rights for French handball’s top properties have been put out for tender
Second-tier sport will boost support for new channel
Prospects for a new Swedish sports channel, SportExpressen, could well hang on its coverage of second-tier domestic rights for ice hockey and football
Hardball Team tells bidders to put in new offers
Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.
Canal Plus pays more for less of Polish football
Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus has won the live rights for the Polish football league
League gives in over ownership to speed up TV sale
Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights
Channels quit EBU bid for own World Cup pool
The consortium of seven Nordic free-to-air broadcasters which own the World Cup rights for 2006 has bid again for the rights for the 2010 tournament
Court probes federation, clubs, TV and agencies
Initial investigations into French football television-rights deals find various irregularities
IAAF revamps series in search of golden TV deals
The International Association of Athletics Federations is considering an overhaul of the Golden League series