Analysis
Bayern triumph boosts DFB Cup
Television audiences for this year’s German domestic cup, the DFB Cup, rose nine per cent on the previous season
DFB under fire as ProSiebenSat.1 push for tender
The German football association, the Deutscher Fussball-Bund, could join the football league in having its television rights arrangements put under the spotlight of the country’s cartel office
Lega probed over porn channel’s blocked bids
The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, could face a heavy fine if found guilty of illegally blocking the sale of television rights
Orange’s handball hors d’oeuvre
French telecoms company Orange is to combine its recently-acquired domestic handball rights with Ligue 1 football to launch a strong Saturday evening sports schedule
Brazil bundles football with biofuels
The Clube dos 13, the body that organises Brazil’s top football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, has entered into a partnership with the Brazilian government
Norwegian tender tests water for new-media bidders
Norwegian football’s new commercial rights tender goes a step further than most in splitting up its rights for the market
Ppv fallout from Spain’s football war
The number of pay-per-view football buys in Spain fell 36 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007
Sogecable defies government over Real Madrid extension
Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable is looking to exercise an option to extend its present deal with top La Liga football club Real Madrid
Six Nations fails to hit last year’s viewing peak
After a record-breaking 2007, television audiences for the 2008 Six Nations rugby union tournament fell in all four markets of the participating countries
Aggressive RTL switches channel
Flagship RTL4 to show sport for first time in years
Why regulator may like new plan
Proposed packaging of rights would almost certainly require Dutch anti-trust authority to overturn rule banning collective selling
Eredivisie may offer live rights to terrestrial TV
Proposed packaging of rights will undermine pay-television live rights and highlights
ISPR’s football rights are a good fit for Sportfive
Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to
Agency set to be squeezed out of Bundesliga rights deal
Deutsche Fussball Liga may deal directly with Premiere, bypassing Infront
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
The TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing in December shows Champions League second-phase matches topping the tables in six of 19 countries surveyed.
Top TV sport UK, US 2002
American Football and the Winter Olympics contested the top television sports viewing in the US, taking nine of the Top 10 positions in the 2002 network chart.