Analysis

Football

German broadcasters could be forced to pay much more for the Euro 2008 rights because of strong competition.

Football

Sportfive has postponed the selling of Euro 2008 pay-television rights in the Netherlands after the only bidder offered less than €500,000.

Football

German pay-television company Premiere got its last orders from the Bundesliga when it failed to win the league’s rights for public-place viewing.

Football

Strong competition for the Euro 2008 rights in France should lead to a steep increase in rights fees because of the rivalry among the country’s terrestrial broadcasters.

Football

The Premier League’s £171.6 million deal with the BBC takes the league’s audiovisual-rights income to more than £680 million.

Football

Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting is considering launching a Sky Sports channel on the digital-terrestrial service Freeview.

Football

The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway
Football

Italian state broadcaster Rai won the live, free-to-air rights for football’s Champions League, taking them from commercial rival Mediaset
Football

Portuguese pay-television channel Sport TV acquired the rights for football’s 2006 World Cup
Football

Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi is being asked to pay at least twice as much to extend its present deal for the rights for the Asian Football Confederation

Call by public-service broadcaster SABC to change the country’s listed-events law
Swimming

Canada’s French-language public-service SRC is racing against time to organise the host-broadcasting of the world swimming championships

The plan of commercial broadcaster La 7 to launch a 24-hour sports channel on its digital-terrestrial platform will help the company make the most of its investment in sport

CBC to re-new Formula One deal

IMG may be going places, despite the setback of failing to win the World Cup rights

The EBU has quietly notched up several smaller victories this year

Football

The loss of World Cup rights is a major blow for the Infront agency
Football

FIFA surprised by what it thought was a cautious approach by bidding agencies.