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The latest rights auction for Serie A was anything but predictable, and leaves the league with more questions than answers.

The big US sports leagues have been enjoying some extraordinary increases in domestic rights value in recent years, making them the richest sports leagues in the world

Some interesting second screen and social media facts and figures, in an infographical snippet from the upcoming Global Sports Media Consumption report.

It might seem churlish to question a sports-rights deal worth $7.65bn but that is what we are doing in this issue

A picture appears to be emerging in France of a pay-television market in which once-fierce rivals Canal Plus and beIN Sports are learning to coexist, still competing for rights but with programming strategies…
Cricket

If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.

What goes up must come down. We know that. Sir Isaac Newton and Blood, Sweat & Tears have told us. For some reason, though, the laws of gravity don’t appear to apply to the rights to premium sports content.

The deadline of midnight Wednesday by which Telefónica and Mediaset could bid for the stake in Canal Plus held by Prisa came and went with no bid.

Football, table tennis, badminton and, increasingly, Formula One motor racing are at the forefront of sporting passions in Asia

To lose one set of Champions League rights in a major European TV market, Mr Murdoch, might be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two, looks like carelessness
Football

Italy has more laws on its statute books than any other European country but Italians are famous for considering them to be mere suggestions, polite recommendations, even paternalistic forms of advice, rather than binding rules...

One of the most significant developments over the last 18 months in the sports-rights market – particularly in the market for global third-party rights for premium properties – has been the emergence of …

In the last decade we saw a gradual ratcheting up of the competition for sports rights in the Middle East, leading to soaring rights inflation

It has been a busy couple of weeks for Uefa and its two sales agents, Team Marketing and CAA Eleven

News of monster sports-rights deals from ‘across the pond’ is nothing new. Rights prices in the US have been soaring now for some years. Bu

Last week, while the typhoon in the Philippines was destroying all before it, I came across a news article describing a television rights deal for the Uefa Champions League as “Armageddon” and recognised tha…

The launch of a new sports competition is usually a sign of confidence that the market is expanding, and that there is enough supporter passion, and interest from broadcasters and sponsors, to maintain…

The annual Sportel trade fair in Monte Carlo is always the best place to gauge the mood of the industry as a whole, to get a sense of whether the barometer needle is pointing to sunny, overcast or stormy