SportBusiness Staff

Football

Russian state broadcaster RTR acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup

NHK attempts to reduce share of costs fiercely resisted

Football

Concerns that the commission will try to interfere too much in national market.
Football

Deal between Fifa, football’s world governing body, and the Dentsu agency for World Cup television rights

The European Commission last week accused German public-service broadcasters of a series of irregularities
Baseball

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.

Cricket

Cricket:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan was awarded the domestic rights to the upcoming India v Pakistan series by the Madras High Court, which was ruling on the case brought by Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms.

Football

Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa is showing matches from Italy’s Serie A league its website.

Football

Swedish football fans have been presented with a near television black-out of the Allvenskan, the country’s top football league.

CVC is looking to sell its Dorna subsidiary, the commercial-rights owner of the MotoGP world championships.