Analysis
Malaysia pays record new-media fee
Canal Plus holds out over price
Sportfive struggles to recoup fees
Putin’s football politics is perilous for pay-TV
Why Premier League invited YouTube to bid for rights
Lagardere ‘will buy more’
TV asked to increase bids as athletics rights fees plunge
Primera Liga TV audiences fall 5%
Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s Primera Liga in 2005-06 fell five per cent on the previous season.
German handball set to switch to pay-TV cash
The German Handball League is set to win a big increase in its television rights fees if it accepts an offer by Premiere.
US restriction will handicap Global’s World Cup bid
Global Cricket Corporation will be handicapped when it bids for the next round of rights.
TVN starts sports channel on back of Champions win
Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League
Setanta strategy pushed up price
Setanta, which acquired two of the Premier League’s six packages of live rights, was the major challenger for the most highly prized package of top matches.
Pay-merger forms ‘dominant cartel’
France Télévisions said that the merger of Canal Plus and TPS will create a company with a stranglehold on France’s sports-rights market.
Rai, Mediaset and Sky count cost if Juve is relegated
Rai, Mediaset and Sky will be the big losers if Serie A champions Juventus are relegated to Serie B next season as a result of the match-fixing scandal.
UK, Italian viewers up for the Cup, but not Germans
Sportfive exodus set to continue
TF1 sells World Cup rights in bid to undermine M6
TF1 appears to have done its best to undermine the coverage of most of the remaining games by the rival M6 channel.