Analysis

Rai, the Italian state broadcaster, this week defended its aggressive stance towards the European Broadcasting Union
Cycling

The ProTour, “will become one of the most recognised brands in European sport, and will lead to a big increase in the amount and quality of televised cycling”.
Handball

The European Handball Federation will continue to sell the television rights for the sport’s Champions League competition in-house.
Snooker

The UK division of Korean company LG Electronics is quitting the sponsor-ship of snooker.

RTBF has extended its deal for Formula 1 rights by five years, from 2006 until 2010.
Football

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Cricket

Television rights for Asian cricket have traditionally been among the most competed-for in the world.

Football

Football’s ongoing European Championships may be attracting huge television audiences across Europe but in some of the poorer Asian markets it is not being shown at all.
Football

Media Partners and the family of Riccardo Silva are close to acquiring the international TV rights for eight of Italian football’s 20 Serie A clubs.
Football

TWI is understood to have paid only $2 million a year for the international rights of the French Ligue 1.

Football

The German football league increased the value of its international television rights by 40 per cent in selling the rights for the next two years to the Sportfive agency.

Football

The joint acquisition of 2006 World Cup rights in Flemish-speaking Belgium by the region’s two main commercial broadcasters is part of a wider battle against VRT

There is a strong argument to create a centralised sponsorship structure for Formula 1.
Football

ESPN Star Sports is in the middle of tough negotiations with cable operators as it seeks to refund its huge outlay for English football’s Premier League.

Michael Payne, the IOC’s director of global broadcast and media rights, is to leave to take over the marketing of Formula 1 motor racing.

South African public-service broadcaster SABC, which has been sharing the television rights for Formula 1, withdrew from the bidding for the next round of rights because it could no longer afford the cash

Pan-Scandinavian pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Nordic is planning to bid for the exclusive television rights across the region for Formula 1
Golf

US golf’s PGA Tour says that it expects to win increased fees for its next domestic television rights deal