Analysis

Football

The dramatic, last-minute collapse of what was itself an eleventh-hour bid to rescue Setanta sets the stage for global sports network ESPN to finally make its move in the UK market.

Football

In monetary terms at least, no-one will emerge a winner should the present impasse in Formula One between eight of the 10 teams and FIA president Max Mosley lead to the creation of a breakaway series.
Handball

Four-way competition helped the IHF achieve about a 70 per cent increase in worldwide television rights revenues in a new deal with the Ufa Sports agency.

The collapse of Setanta’s Premier League deal marks the end of what has been a golden period for sports-rights holders in the UK.

Football

Orange is to target French Open tennis rights as it returns to the sports acquisition trail, having put rights-buying on hold in recent months because of a continuing legal row over the distribution of its Orange Sport channel.
Football

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS says that its deal to retain the Uefa Champions League rights marks the end of its football rights acquisitions for the next couple of years.
Handball

Germany's Handball Bundesliga secured a good increase in rights fees this week after agreeing an all-inclusive deal with free-to-air sports broadcaster DSF.

Cricket

The ICC’s World Twenty20 tournament has helped UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB smash its record audiences for any sport outside football.

Football

Football: Portuguese commercial broadcaster SIC sublicensed the rights for 18 of the 56 matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup from public-service broadcaster RTP.
Athletics

Athletics: US free-to-air broadcaster NBC extended its deal with the New York City Road Runners for the television rights for the New York City marathon for three years from 2009 to 2011
Football

Domestic pay-television television audiences for live coverage of the 2008-09 season of English, Italian and French domestic football have all risen in comparison with the previous year.

Football

The fate of UK pay broadcaster Setanta was hanging by a thread late this week, as TV Sports Markets went to press.
Football

The cumulative average television audience across the big five European markets for this season’s Champions League final was 27 per cent up on the final in 2007-08.

Football

Intense competition between rival pay-television operators has resulted in a tripling of rights fees for Uefa’s Champions League in Poland.
Football

The battle for pay-television subscribers between Sky Deutschland and Deutsche Telekom will start in earnest next season, with both companies unveiling their pricing plans for Bundesliga football.
Football

The Danish government is considering reintroducing listed events legislation after a key national team World Cup qualifier was sold to pay-television.
Football

Football: Spanish media group Prisa agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency for the exclusive pay-television rights of one La Liga match each week, to be shown on Prisa’s Canal Plus premium channel, and t…
Athletics

Asian Games: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangdong, China, in a deal with the Games’ organisers. CCTV will undertake the host broadcasting of the event.