Analysis
Why Italy’s league channel is bad deal for everyone
Fans will pay more to watch, investors will not see a return for a long time, clubs would have earned more from Sky Italia
Rugby and cricket lose in South Africa’s first list
Rugby and football associations expect listing to hit finances, cricket board welcomes chance to get good price for rights
Brussels likely to tell France to cut protected events
List comprises 21 sports events considered to be of “major importance to society”
BSkyB sticks with ppv, after high bid for 3rd package
Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv
Finding for or against Premier League is not clear-cut issue
So was the bidding process for the Premier League’s live rights anti-competitive, as the European Commission believes it might have been? Several competition lawyers believe that there is a strong ar…
UPC to start sports channel
Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Saban’s Sat.1 will go for sport and revitalise dead market
Competition in German market has been curtailed by depressed television market and colluding broadcasters
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Planned boxing channel raises viabililty doubts
The plan of a US television executive to launch a dedicated boxing channel in the US is being regarded with a large amount of scepticism.
Spanish clubs struggle to agree new TV deal
Spanish basketball’s ACB Liga is facing a financial crisis as it struggles to agree a new television contract for next season.
Euroleague wins lifeline and help
European basketball’s Euroleague has been thrown a lifeline by Spain’s fourth-largest bank.
New directive to reject changes on listed events
The European Commission’s revision of the Television Without Frontiers directive is likely to leave the directive’s controversial listed-events provisions largely untouched.
Federations push Brussels to stop news-access move
European Union member states are being won over by the claim of news agencies that the limits on reporting sports events are an unacceptable restriction on freedom of information.
ARD set for league deal after Sat.1 takes Euro cup
German commercial channel Sat.1’s winning bid for the live rights to football’s Champions League over the next three seasons opens the way for ARD.
German, Spanish TV deals confirm the worst for Uefa
Newly signed deals in Spain and Germany confirm that the Uefa Champions League is heading for a major drop in television rights fees in four of Europe’s five major markets.
Olympics are TV’s ‘only great family viewing experience’
“The Olympics are not a sporting event. They are the only great family viewing experience left on all of American television.”
Good for Sky, but too good?
The Premier League’s planned tender of its television rights is good news for British Sky Broadcasting.
TV Sports Markets analysis of Champions League viewing in Europe
Champions League television viewing rose by eight per cent across Europe’s top six football television markets this season.