Analysis
EC agrees Premier League deal
England’s Premier League agreed to end British Sky Broadcasting’s monopoly over live coverage of league games as part of a compromise deal with the European Commission which is expected to end the com…
Pay-TV still wants Formula 1, extra channels or not
The collapse last year of Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula 1 digital “super signal” service was thought likely to end the coverage of the sport on pay-television.
Ambitious pay-TV plans in UK and Germany were always shaky
Kirch, ITV Digital and the Football League, NTL, the Scottish Premier League, the aftermath of the ISL affair at Fifa. Quite apart from self-inflicted wounds at Fifa and also at Vivendi/Canal Plus
Vivendi keeps out Kirch, but how much of ISL will it take?
The impending takeover by French media group Vivendi Universal of the crippled Swiss sports agency ISL will provide an important counterbalance against the Kirch Group in the sale of football World Cup…
Brussels may challenge ruling on football deals
This week's Restrictive Practices Court ruling on the Premier League's television arrangements puts the UK at odds with much of the rest of Europe
Just another day of new turmoil
The Italian competition authority last week threw the issue of the sale of soccer television rights into greater turmoil by launching an investigation into the collective selling of rights by the Lega…
Law would back expulsion
England’s Premier League and European football’s governing body Uefa would have a hard job getting legal support to stop rebel clubs joining the proposed European super league.
ATP wants to take over top events to create super tennis
The Association of Tennis Professionals has drawn up a controversial plan to take ownership of six or seven top tournaments and turn them into an elite series