Analysis

Free-to-air commercial broadcaster seeking to take advantage of ERT's withdrawal from football broadcasting

Guarantees for full, three-year duration of contracts will be demanded

Talks between Serie A and B on mutuality payments will dictate timing of split

Two founding clubs in rights negotiations with Sky

Calls for reduction in free-to-air highlights

Five-year deal, four different broadcasters, three times the previous rights fee

Pakistani rights-holder, Ary Digital, annoyed with premature announcement of coverage

Cricket involving India, rather than cricket in general, being seen as the key content

Second appeal to broadcast authority likely to be rejected

State oil company, state broadcaster, and Chinese host circuit agree interlinked deals for sponsorship and television rights

Ecclestone desire for more races in Asia will hit audiences in Europe, which is still the biggest television rights revenue generator

A successful bid could spell the end for Premiere

Leading Super league clubs complain that broadcasters have "heavily undervalued" their television rights

Broadcasters see internet as increasingly part of the same market as television.

TWI threatens not to bid without assurances from Uefa that tender process genuine

Favourable European time zone means increased fee

Huge difference in valuations indicate that a deal with ARD and ZDF for all 40 matches is unlikely

Despite two ppv fights among top ten ppv audiences, US fans did not take to cautious, media-shy fighte