Analysis

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Cricket

Neo’s high prices created poor relationships with cable operators
Football

Polish World Cup deal falls threw
Football

Russian state broadcaster RTR acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup

NHK attempts to reduce share of costs fiercely resisted

Football

Concerns that the commission will try to interfere too much in national market.
Football

Deal between Fifa, football’s world governing body, and the Dentsu agency for World Cup television rights

The European Commission last week accused German public-service broadcasters of a series of irregularities
Football

Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa is showing matches from Italy’s Serie A league its website.

Football

Swedish football fans have been presented with a near television black-out of the Allvenskan, the country’s top football league.

CVC is looking to sell its Dorna subsidiary, the commercial-rights owner of the MotoGP world championships.

Tennis

The International Tennis Federation has signed several television rights deals in Asia for Davis and Fed Cup tennis.

The International Olympic Committee is hoping for a huge jump in television rights-fees from Korea for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics.

Football

A civil war between two powerful factions in Russian football’s Premier League could threaten the league’s television-rights deals.

The Qatar government is to keep control of its Al Jazeera Sport channel
Cricket

The value to a sponsor of terrestrial television coverage against satellite coverage
Cycling

Tour of Britain is looking for a new rights-distributor

Formula One television rights fees in the Middle East are set to triple