Analysis
Prisa pays on time but no clarity yet on rights ownership
Spanish Football War
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, basketball, cricket, handball and tennis
Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball, cycling, golf, hockey and ESPN’s $1.86bn ACC deal
Basketball: The Sportsman Media Group will sell the international rights for the 2010 Fiba men’s Under-20 and Under-18 European Championships. It is the first time the rights will be sold by an agency.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Portuguese, Argentine, Spanish and Italian football
Football: Portuguese agency PPTV acquired the television and marketing rights for the Portuguese Liga club Sporting Lisbon in a five-year deal, from 2013-14 to 2017-18, worth about €108m ($135m).
Tour gets audience boost in time for EBU negotiations
German and Spanish audiences for the Tour de France increased by over 20 per cent this year, giving the Amaury Sport Organisation a shot in the arm, with negotiations for a new deal expected before 2011 Tour.
Football opts for free-to-air as IOC signs with pay-TV
The Venezuelan Premier League switched from free to pay television, earning itself a 20 per cent increase. The IOC has switched from broadcasting union the OTI topay-operator Telesur.
F1 and US PGA Tour make hay in the Nordics
Resurgent competition between pay-television operators Modern Times Group and Canal Plus is driving up fees in the Nordics.
Serie A wary of premature platform wars
Competition between Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium presents Serie A with an opportunity to enrich itself, but it must be careful of killing off one of the competitors, or forcing them into collusion.
MP & Silva tries new formations to split Asian markets
The agency has creatively diced up rights for the English Premier League, Italian Serie A and several other football leagues between broadcasters in Japan and Vietnam in an effort to maximise profits. Results have been mixed.
FASTRACK: News in brief, Issue 14:15
RCS-RDS wraps up Premier League ... Battling HiTV wins Serie A ... Japan to reclaim Tour's No.1 status ... Crozier's role in ITV rugby win ... Universum seeking ZDF successor.
Prisa plans La Liga global takeover
Prisa-owned pay-television broadcaster Sogecable is seeking international rights deals for La Liga in the expectation that existing deals brokered by the Mediapro agency will be ruled invalid by a court ruling next month.
New Serie A set to consolidate at home and grow abroad
In exclusive interviews, Lega Serie A president Maurizio Beretta and director general Marco Brunelli explain the blueprint for future rights growth for Italian football's top division.
Deutsche Telekom F1 talks fuel hopes for pay-TV market
The German IPTV operator is in talks to buy F1, Serie A and European Tour golf rights, suggesting it could be about to present a bigger challenge to dominant pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland.
2010 World Cup ’empties streets’ across the world
World Cup breaks viewing records once again, although average audience falls in four of the European 'Big Five'.
Mixed fortunes for league and national team
Poland's friendly against Cameroon on August 11 faces a broadcast blackout unless public-service broadcaster TVP can agree a last-minute deal with the Sportfive agency.
Mediapro: We will be out of insolvency in three months
The Spanish rights agency's insolvency is being seen as a tactical move, although it has lost Serie A rights after missing a payment.
2010 World Cup ‘a turning point’ for internet sport
Figures and comment on online and mobile viewing of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
Formula One incumbents ousted in Poland and Romania
Polsat and cable operator RCS-RDS have agreed three-year deals for the 2011 to 2013 seasons.