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Just six months ago, Spain’s LaLiga - and its president Javier Tebas - appeared to be in an unenviable position.

That the Premier League continues to pull in huge sums for its media rights is no surprise – but Altice’s acquisition of the rights in France, and dislodging of the league’s long-time partner Canal Plus, was definitely met with a few raised eyebrows.

Japan’s surprise win over two-time winners South Africa was the most captivating match of this year’s Rugby World Cup. It was also a good result for tournament organisers World Rugby, who need interest in the country to grow as Japan will host the 2019 tournament.

BeIN Media Group has become an increasingly important player in the global rights business since its emergence as Al-Jazeera Sport back in 2003.

MP & Silva rounded off the international sales cycle for Italy’s Serie A last week, with the league maintaining its position as the third most valuable in Europe.

After securing a 70-per-cent jump in the value of its domestic rights in deals with BT Sport and Sky this February, the English Premier League began mapping out its plans for the rest of the world

This issue opens with two hot topics: the rollout of OTT and the big splash made by LeTV Sports’s entry into Hong Kong’s sport rights market. Both are very much the shape of things to come. P

With its 2015-16 to 2017-18 global sales cycle all but complete, Uefa is on course to earn about 40 per cent more than it did in the previous cycle, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Yet another public broadcasting union lost its hold on Olympic rights last month as the International Olympic Committee sold its Mena rights to beIN Media Group

After signing a domestic deal with Telefónica, and with Mediapro on course to hit bold international rights targets, LaLiga is set to replace Serie A as the second most valuable European football league in terms of media rights.

The staggering pan-European Olympic Games deal signed by Discovery Communications last week will change the broadcasting industry for at least the next decade. The €1.3

Executives at MP & Silva will have been breathing a sigh of relief this week after NC Plus submitted an offer for the Polish Ekstraklasa which all but covers the agency’s guarantee.

The early-morning raid on the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich two weeks ago, and the subsequent indictments of senior Fifa officials, has taken the world by storm.

I grew up in a house where horse racing was almost a religion. My grandfather was a groom at a stud farm run by the Hederman family in Limerick from the 1930s to the late 1950s and my father briefly followed in his footsteps when granddad retired.

Given the ructions in Spain this week it was tempting to lead off this blog with another ‘Fight of the Century’ headline, but that would be giving too much weight to a dispute that appeared to be rooted in the politics of personality more than the issues at stake.

If you have just landed from another planet, welcome. The first thing you need to know is that on Saturday night in Las Vegas the ‘fight of the century’ will take place. F

It has been a good few weeks for the European Broadcasting Union. First, the consortium renewed its deal with European Athletics, picking up the new European Sports Championships in the process

Don’t be misled by the fact that the first big rights deal in the UK after last month’s deals for the Premier League should also involve a hefty uplift. Premiership Rugby is one of the few sports bodies not likely to feel the chill wind of a price squeeze in the UK after its footballing equivalent sucked a lot of life out of the sports-rights ecosystem.