Analysis

BBC’s cricket bid hangs on Sky and Champions League T

The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.

The International Olympic Committee’s surprise gatekeeper deal with Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia for the rights to the Olympic Games of 2010 and 2012 could be a blueprint for the IOC’s future rights-sales strategy in Europe

The Sportfive agency is facing a dilemma in its Euro 2008 television rights negotiations in Austria.

Pan-European media giant RTL is to make a surprise return to the sports rights marketing business

The Union Cycliste Internationale is set to go ahead with the planned centralisation of the television rights of its professional road racing series, the Pro Tour.

Boxing website SecondsOut.com is close to tying up rights deals with top US and European promoters to show fights on internet pay-per-view.

Romania is becoming one of Europe’s fastest growing sports rights markets.

Bids for the international rights for England’s Football League are due in on March 26

Negotiations for the international rights for French football’s top tier Ligue 1 may be complicated by the finalising of the domestic rights contract

Major League Soccer will bring in rights fees of about $18.5 million a year from next season, an indication of television’s growing faith in the sport.

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ rounded off a successful few months

The election of a new president of Mexico’s football association will move forward the implementation of a four-year plan to professionalise the game.

Spanish Primera Liga football club Sevilla finally agreed a television rights deal this week, five weeks into the start of the season.

German cable operator Kabel Deutschland says that it is no longer interested in acquiring content rights.

Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.