Analysis
TF1 favoured to retain ligue rights
Eurosport also in the running
Canal Plus starts post-merger era with paltry bid
£3 million per year bid for English Premier League rights, compared to £9 million per year under existing deal
Spain plays the waiting game
Broadcasters stall negotiations for Euro 2008 rights until national team's qualification prospects become clearer
Czech TV loses rights after Prima surprise bid
Sportfive receives 80-per-cent rights fee increase for Euro 2008 rights in Czech Republic
Versatel’s ADSL football plans are ‘too optimistic’
Experts not convinced €30.5 million a season investment will be successful.
Nine lets Ten walk away with sliding Masters
Network Ten the only free-to-air bidder for 2007 US Masters
CBC to keep NHL after commercial challenge fades
Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC is expected to renew its long-standing rights deal with US ice-hockey’s National Hockey League, although it will have to pay more and share the most attractive m…
SBS wins Holland rights with bonus but no tender
Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS6 extended its contract for the television rights for the Dutch national football team’s matches
Dutch, Belgian pay-TV copes with no top football
Increases in subscribers bring value of domestic league football rights into question
Aggressive Setanta faces hard task to win Premier place
Setanta to put live Premier League football on digital-terrestrial TV, BSkyB follow suit
New grand prix prompts media giant to buy rights
Turkish grand prix has prompted Turkey’s biggest media company, Dogan, to acquire the domestic television rights to Formula One
BSkyB hits back at rivals as media wars hot up
NTL becomes Virgin Media, BSkyB triple-play becomes See, Speak and Surf
Ecclestone gets 20% rise from Japan
Formula One is said to have secured an increase in rights fees of close to 20 per cent in Japan
New F1 TV deals last beyond key Concorde date
Ecclestone bolsters control by agreeing long-term television deals
IOC eyes high rising Hong Kong
The IOC will also start separate talks this spring in Hong Kong, a rights territory which, like China, has been treated as part of the ABU deal until now
De Mol ‘in talks to buy’ Dutch SBS
De Mol is in talks about buying three television channels in Netherlands
Time for China to start punching its weight, says IOC
Separate deal to be agreed with China for the first time for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics
Ashes deal is blow for Fox, and Nine isn’t too pleased
sale of the Australian free-to-air rights for this summer’s England v Australia Ashes cricket series is a blow to pay-broadcaster Fox Sports