Analysis
‘Agencies will have central role’
‘Agencies will still make big bids’
‘Talk of agency crisis exaggerated’
‘What crisis? We don’t see it’
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Football’s European Championship in Portugal dominated sports viewing across Europe in June.
Seconds out for next bout of ppv boxing on internet
UK boxing website Seconds Out is to launch a pay-per-view internet boxing service at the end of this month.
Ten offers record fee – with security of matching rights
Asian cable and satellite broadcaster Ten Sports emerged as the clear favourite to win the worldwide television rights for Sri Lankan cricket.
Touring cars go for the world and win ITV interest
The decision to turn the European touring car championship into a world series has been welcomed by motorsport observers.
TV Sports Markets analysis of Euro 2004
Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.
Eredivisie deal signals UPC aims
Cable operator UPC has signed a one-year deal with the Eredivisie, the country’s top domestic football league.
Pressure mounts for Italy to return to collective sales
Pressure for a return to the collective selling of television rights for Italy’s Serie A increased dramatically last week.
‘Yes, TPS is at risk but ligue must do best for clubs’
The French football league said this week that it would have no qualms about awarding all its commercial rights to a single company when it puts the rights out to tender in October.
Russia set to buy Premier rights
The Premier League has sold its television rights for Russia to a new sports agency with connections to Ynon Kreiz, head of the European arm of Haim Saban’s media empire.
Russia’s private sports channel fights for survival
7TV, one of Russia’s two big terrestrial sports channels and the only major channel still privately-owned, is undergoing a major restructuring to survive.
Euro finalists take the money
The progress of host-nation Portugal and rank outsiders Greece to the final of football’s Euro 2004 provided much needed financial boosts to the two countries’ struggling public-service broadcasters.
Brussels probes how EBU beat rivals for Olympic rights
The European Commission has opened an investigation into the way that the International Olympic Committee awarded the media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games to the EBU.
New deals will give TWI rights of top four clubs
The TWI agency is thought to be close to acquiring the club television rights of English Premier League clubs Arsenal and Liverpool.
Showjumping’s super league finds TV hard to win
The UK round of showjumping’s Samsung Super League will have no coverage on the country's terrestrial television.