Analysis

Football

Big increases in the US and Japan the highlights of a successful round of sales for Traffic Sports.
Basketball

Skai can't afford to keep rights as Greek ad market continues to tumble.

Football

Forging links between French and Mexican clubs part of strategy to raise Ligue 1's profile.
Rugby Union

Ambitious Eurosport and Setanta pushed ESS for pan-Asian rugby World Cup deal excluding key markets.
Football

Court found federation and MLS operated cartel which could have damaged business of third-party promoter.
Football

Canal Plus's one-time partner TP joins forces with TVN Group the day before Polish football league tender is released.
Football

Most powerful federations table a more modest centralisation proposal, and agencies try to undermine Uefa with long-term deals.
Athletics

BBC's failed offer was linked to London 2015 ... Gol TV subscribers on the up ... GAA to reduce live matches
Football

Traffic Sports agency to launch second-tier US football league modelled on "European" formats.
Tennis

ATP and WTA have tentative talks on centralising media rights in bid to boost revenues and draw together a fragmented sport.

Football

Broadcasters, telcos and agencies are among the 16 companies that carry the Premier League’s overseas channel, or content service, which has received positive feedback after its first two months of operation.

Football

The Austrian football federation has secured a slight increase in its latest three-year deal with public-service broadcaster ORF.
Rugby Union

The recent Heineken Cup rugby deal in France brought to an end a negotiation that lasted well over a year, as French broadcasters resisted the demands of the rights-holders for rights fees comparable to those in the UK.
Football

Sports rights agencies have begun to question the revenue estimates and projections put forward last month by Uefa in its proposal to centralise federation rights to European Championship and World Cup qualifiers.
Baseball

ESPN America, Disney’s pan-European, US sports network, is facing a critical couple of months as it looks to renew major rights contracts for Major League Baseball and ice-hockey’s National Hockey League.
Basketball

Sportfive Olympics sales start with the Kremlin ... NBA struggling in France and Italy ... Best-ever Ryder Cup for Sky
Athletics

The IAAF and IEC in Sports hope that last week's deal with Channel 4 for World Championship athletics will encourage other European commercial broadcasters to buy athletics rights.
Football

This week saw the first submissions in the European Court of Justice case on the use of cheap foreign pay TV decoder cards by UK pubs to access Premier League coverage.