Analysis

Football
Belgium

Versatel has jumped into the vanguard of an emerging movement by telecoms companies to seriously challenge broadcasters for live television rights.

Skiing
Austria

France Télévisions believe that FIS must change to interest broadcasters.
Austria

Formula One Management to take over host-broadcasting from 2007 season.
Football
Asia

Analysts claim that Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten overpaid for Australian Football League rights

Football
Europe

Italian Parliament votes for collective selling of football rights
Europe

TV Sports Markets has a new owner.

Athletics
Europe

UK broadcasters experience a mixed 2005 for television-sport viewing.

Football
Europe

Victory for three small German cable operators in Bundesliga rights battle.
Argentina

Formula One Management to take over host-broadcasting of Formula One series from this season.

Skiing
Austria

EBU set to get money back for Italian skiing rights.

Football
Argentina

Deadlock in Argentine football rights talks could be broken by entry of new player.

Football
Europe

English Premier League considers launching own channel in only two territories without a deal.

Athletics
Afghanistan

Pan-European broadcaster acquires content specifically for the region for the first time.

Football

English Premier League international television rights expected to more than double in value since previous sale.
Athletics

Television rights deals with incumbent partners ABC/ESPN and TNT likely to be the most valuable of the year.

Australian Rules Football

UK pay-operator’s English Premier League deal was year's largest television sports-rights deal.

Football
Europe

Spanish pay-TV operator's dominance in football rights market under threat after regulator accuses it of being a monopoly.
Denmark

But proposed extension deal for top-tier domestic football rights needs approval of football association and competition authority.