Analysis
‘Wrong-footed’ Sky Italia fights to retain dominance
Giovanni Bruno, head of sport at Rupert Murdoch’s Italian pay-television platform Sky Italia, said this week that the company would fight to defend its dominance of the country’s pay-television market
Was Turkish winner fooled?
Live coverage of Turkey’s top tier domestic football league, the Super Lig, will return to terrestrial television for the first time since 1994
Takeover of Israeli channels could lead to football peace
Aviv Giladi, head of a growing Israeli television empire, last week took over JCS Sports, which owns the country’s two sports channels, the cable and satellite Sport 5 and Sport 5 Plus
F1’s TV season is saved by last five races for title
Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets
Brussels takes tough line on league rights
Commission wants to ensure that collective selling will not result foreclosure of competition by a single buyer
Record viewing for women’s cup
Swedish TV4 gets best-ever viewing figure for Women's football World Cup final
Why new channel could be viable – and good for sport
Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
Top basketball leagues struggle for TV coverage
Talks for rights for Spanish league founder with five weeks of season already gone
Brussels tells Italy to drop mini-ads
'Television Without Frontiers' directive does not permit advert while football match halves are underway
Spain rivalry lifts MotoGP but F1 stalls with Alonso
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is enjoying a flying start for its coverage of motorcycling’s MotoGP this season, with the rivalry between young Spanish riders Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa
Big clubs rebel against Globo’s new bundled deal
Brazil’s four biggest football clubs have refused to ratify a new television rights deal
Federation creates web channel as NBC takes up reins
Last week’s biggest-ever US television deal for the World Equestrian Games in 2010 is a major breakthrough for the sport in its attempts to broaden its audience
IPL gets flying start but can it keep up the rate?
Can television audiences for cricket’s new India Premier League Twenty20 competition be sustained?
Final defeat for Realitatea sport plan?
Romanian broadcaster Pro TV’s successful acquisition of Uefa Cup rights was also the third major defeat in a month for rival commercial channel Realitatea
Revenue share on new-media wins over Japan pool
The International Olympic Committee’s deal in Japan for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics brings to an end a difficult, 18-month negotiation
Agency football future under fire
Further questions were prompted this week about the future role of agencies in football
IOC hopes European success will spur wavering US market
The International Olympic Committee took the plunge this week in launching the tender process for the European media rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics