Analysis

Football

A study of ESPN’s most watched programmes since its August launch shows its reliance on Premier League content.

Football

Recent growth in the pay-television market has helped Finland’s top-tier domestic football league gain its first significant rights-fee.

TVNZ’s deal for next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi has become a high-profile victim to the deteriorating economic climate.
Football

Polsat launched a premium football channel last week as part of wider plans to grow its digital platform.
Football

Football: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for Euro 2012 in 36 countries in a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body.
American Football

American Football: Pay-television broadcaster Telenet acquired the rights in Flanders for the National Football League in a four-year deal with the IMG agency from 2009 to 2012

The IOC exploited near-perfect bidding conditions in concluding its Brazilian deal last month for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.

RTVE could have some explaining to do to after offering up to 20 per cent more in direct negotiations with the IOC for the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics than it did as part of a pan-regional EBU bid.
American Football

NRK has been forced to offload its 2010 football World Cup rights to pay-broadcaster Viasat in the face of mounting costs for next year.
Football

The Premier League has made a number of small but significant modifications to its Asian rights invitation to tender in response to how the media landscape has changed since it last went to market .
Football

The international rights for Italy’s Serie A will be split into three territories – Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Cricket

Last week Ten Sports became the first sports broadcaster in India to stream its live cricket content for free online.
Football

Uefa’s decision to centralise the television rights of the Europa League, has been more than justified by major increases in revenue and exposure.

Athletics

European broadcasters will be scrutinising ratings for last month’s World Athletics Championships as they weigh up their bids for the rights of future championships.

Football

Football: Italian digital-terrestrial pay-broadcaster Dahlia acquired a package of live Serie A rights covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons in a two-year deal worth €63m ($90m), brokered by the Infront S…
American Football

American Football: US television network NBC extended its deal for National Football League (NFL) matches until 2013 in a two-year deal, paying an estimated two-per-cent annual increase on its existing…

Sport’s top-tier rights-holders and the telecommunications industry’s front-line players are determined to make sport on mobile devices work.

Europe’s top satellite pay-television operators will be casting envious glances at the UK’s BSkyB, after it enjoyed what analysts described as a “flawless quarter” to end-June.