TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: US golf, sailing and more
Golf: US network NBC signed a six-year extension to its deal with the US Golf Association which gives it the live rights for the US Open, one of golf’s four Majors.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football and others
Football: Russia’s Premier League is set to sign a three-year deal worth $17m (£9m/€13m) a season for its rights from the 2005 season with the Fedcom-media agency
Clubs battle over selling rights
Disputes over income from digital-terrestrial and other media rights cause tension amongst the clubs.
Russian league wins massive hike in rights fees
Russian football’s Premier League is to sell its domestic television rights in a deal representing a 300-per-cent increase
Spanish football federation may start own channel
The Spanish football federation is considering launching its own television channel
Race courses eye internet and 3G
Racing UK is considering offering live coverage to mobile operators and broadband internet betting websites
TF1 highlights ‘devalued’ by club and pay-TV boost
French commercial broadcaster TF1 wants to renegotiate its highlights deal with the French football league
Bundesliga to stop Premiere access
German football league to block plan by Deutsche Telekom to use Bundesliga internet rights.
IOC to take Beijing ad income unless China pays higher rate
China will for the first time be pushed to pay proper money for the Olympic Games of 2010 and 2012 by IOC option.
Bidders called for five sets of non-live rights
English football’s Premier League has split its non-live coverage rights into five packages.