Analysis

Rugby League

The UK’s Rugby Football League is prepared to sell at least some live coverage of the Super League to terrestrial television.

The plan by Setanta Sport to launch a dedicated sports channel early next year was greeted with scepticism.
Football

Traffic Sports Marketing has given up trying to sell Latin American football rights in Asia
Football

BBC have held talks with TWI, ESPN, Setanta

SportA, the troubled sports rights agency of Germany’s public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, has won a reprieve.
Football

With British Sky Broadcasting expected to walk away with all the live television rights for the next three-year contract – bids have to be submitted by next Friday, July 11 – there are three key questions: 1. Ho
Football

ARD is the favourite to acquire the primary highlights rights for the Bundesliga.
Tennis

Death of IMG's Mark McCormack unlikely to damage TWI-Wimbledon relationship
Football

Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

Football

The French football league has put a brave face on the compromise deal between rival pay-television platforms Canal Plus and Télévision Par Satellite.

Football

The Italian league appears to be ploughing a surprisingly lonely furrow in setting up its own channel.

Football

The FA's hopes of profitably integrating broadcast and sponsorship rights is likely to be scuppered by the downturn in the rights market.

Commercial broadcasters in several European countries are planning an onslaught on many of the top sports rights.
Football

Lega Calcio, is adamant that its planned pay-television channel is not simply a ploy to pressure Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia into increasing rights fees for the smaller clubs.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Rugby Union

The BBC increased its viewing figures for rugby union’s Six Nations championship this year by 770,000.
Football

Real Madrid’s classy 3-1 defeat of Manchester United in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final attracted an average audience of 8.89 million UK viewers.
Boxing

The BBC says that it is still a long way from signing a new broadcasting deal with British heavyweight boxer Audley Harrison.