Analysis
WSG on course for big total after flying start for IPL
The World Sport Group agency is set to recoup the bulk of its outlay on the overseas rights for cricket’s Indian Premier League from just two territories
Broadcasters extend rights-sharing
NRK and pan-Scandinavian pay-television operator Modern Times Group are to extend their two-year-old sports rights-sharing agreement
Clubs won’t stop rights law
Four of Italy’s biggest football clubs have joined forces to block the government bill to impose the collective selling of television rights.
Talks in chaos as Eredivisie prays it is third-time lucky
Dutch football’s top-tier league, the Eredivisie, is in need of a miracle to avoid a cut in revenue
Sport will be key for internet TV
Sport will be the single biggest driver for online video
Serie A TV partner must make €1bn ‘no-risk’ guarantee
Lega Calcio, the Italian football league, has told the sports rights agencies and merchant banks bidding to handle the next round of media-rights sales that they must bring in at least €1 billion (£750 million) a year
TV fears talks with IOC over NBC demand will be charade
There is growing pessimism and anger among broadcasters that the IOC will give in to the demands of US network NBC.
Round 1 to Dogan but Turkish Uefa Cup battle rages on
Turkish media group Doğan will pay at least a 33-per-cent increase on its present deal for the Uefa Champions League
World Cup Asia fees keep rising
Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian sub-continent and likely to be the next Asian territories to sign television rights deals for football’s World Cup
Al Jazeera wins Middle East crown with record Uefa deal
Al Jazeera Sport’s record-breaking television-rights deal last week for European club competitions marks a new era in the Middle East
Athletics report shows TV viewing on five-year slide
Audience of 230 million in Europe
Telco sale delays Liga tapping into free TV rivalry
PT Multimedia to sell premium sports channel Sport TV
Numéricâble offers new sports TV mix
Competitive sport to be mixed with content for families
Listed events blow for pay-TV as Euro matches protected
Rights-seller Pitch International would prefer to see the match go untelevised rather than set a “dangerous precedent” of accepting a poor offer
Neo serves up top tennis in India
Indian sports broadcaster Neo will pay a combined $130,000 (£66,000/ €88,000) a year in the two deals it signed this week for the Women’s Tennis Association Tour and Davis and Fed Cup tennis.
Pay-TV rivalry brings record deal
Canal Plus and Nelonen pay a Finnish record fee for domestic ice hockey
Twenty20 gets Neo off to fast start on Rs5bn sales chase
Indian television advertising rates hit record high during World Twenty20 Championship final