Analysis

Athletics

The European Athletic Association renewed its television rights deal this week with the European Broadcasting Union.
Football

DirecTV's bankruptcy throws into doubt the future of deal for 2006 World Cup.
Football

The G14 group of top European clubs is demanding that Uefa goes further than it has planned in changing the redistribution of television revenue.
Football

England’s Premier League officially rejected the EC's demands for a radical overhaul of its media-rights policy.
Cricket

The value of the Australian Cricket Board’s television rights in the UK looks set to fall by 36 per cent.

The Malaysian Formula 1 grand prix was shown nationally on Spanish terrestrial television last weekend.
Basketball

Europe will be watching very closely to see whether basketball’s breakaway Euroleague can survive its present financial crisis.
Cycling

The UCI is planning a controversial overhaul of the rights-distribution and television production of the men’s road World Cup.

Basketball

The true extent of the financial crisis facing European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague became clear last week.
Football

Fifa has decided against taking the sale of the television rights for the 2010 World Cup final in house.
Equestrian

The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.

The cancellation of the first round of the British Rally Championship has raised questions about the viability of the series.
Boxing

France’s Canal Plus is considering a plan to show the fights of top French boxers on pay-per-view.
Football

The collapse of Scandinavian sponsorship and rights agency Sponsor Service has put the future of a number of television-rights deals in doubt.

Football

The FA has made little progress in its bid to gain some measure of control over how the rights for England’s away games are sold into the UK market.
Football

Is the FA's appointment of Richard Dorfman and Mark Oliver a sign that the association recognises it is facing a much tougher round of negotiations?
Football

British Sky Broadcasting’s viewing figures for this year’s FA Cup are 37 per cent up on the same stage last year.
Football

The Football Association is considering making many more FA Cup games available for pay-television in its next round of rights deals.