Analysis

Spanish market proving difficult for sellers of the rights to the Fifa World Cup and French Open tennis

MP & Silva sold Serie A and Ligue 1 online betting rights to the Perform Group. But just nine months ago it sold the same rights to Rightster as part of a launch of a joint venture with the company. So what’s going on?

Amaury Sport Organisation does an early deal to renew its domestic rights deal for the Tour de France with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, taking advantage of the weakness of its commercial rivals.

Olympics deal part of Slim plan to expand media empire in Latin America through top sport

World Cup rights fee falls in Nigeria but increases in sub-Saharan Africa as Fifa keeps faith with AUB and Octagon

The Swedish league explains why it sold its rights without a tender; TV4 Group looks to sell C More.

Broadcasters worried by Pitch and MP & Silva joint venture but rivals say it's business as usual

NOS Euro 2016 deal does not augur well for CAA Eleven

Aggressive Fox poses threat t Sport1 future in the Netherlands

ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines rugby union’s Six Nations television audiences in the home markets as viewing in the UK hits all-time high U

Pitch stockpiling of Italian rights presages arrival of Al Jazeera but maybe not until summer 2014

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences for the recent Alpine World Ski Championships in key European markets

ASO, as usual, holds the key to planned cycling shake-up

MP & Silva chief explains why channel plan may work for Asia

C More pays a little more for ice hockey to fend off rival bidders

EBU and Infront battle for biathlon rights for next four years

BT Vision pays high fee to attract 'uniquely loyal' UFC fanbase