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Ahead of SPORTEL Monaco 2013 next week, TV Sports Markets have again produced the SPORTELBriefing for the 10th year running

It seems slightly surreal that a sports event which will not take place for another nine years can be the source of such heated (no pun intended) debate, but for some months now there has been no bigger…

The EBU has held on to another valuable piece of sports media real estate by renewing for the Tour de France through to 2019

A story based on money and power, with a little sex thrown in for good measure, always makes good reading and Italian football has delivered once again

Premier League international rights income up by $1.3bn

Does it still make sense, in a multi-channel, multi-media world, to use the law to guarantee free-to-air TV coverage of sports events?

Who says this industry is predictable? In my notes on the last issue of TV Sports Markets I said that the entry of Fox Sports into Italy had been completely unexpected

Two weeks ago I wrote that the Pitch International and MP & Silva agencies had three options when looking for a home for their rights in Italy

It might not be a time of the year when you would normally be thinking too much about winter sports but at the European Broadcasting Union and the Infront Sports & Media agency it’s very much a hot topic.

June sees the publication of the third annual Global Sports Media Consumption Report, produced by the Perform Group, Kantar Media and TV Sports Markets, which in a short time has established itself as…
Football

When Uefa meets for its executive committee meeting this week in London there is a very good chance, I understand, that it will ratify a measure to boost the Europa League: from the 2015-16 season the…
Basketball

Editor Frank Dunne previews the latest edition of TV Sports Markets
Basketball

Editor Frank Dunne previews the latest edition of TV Sports Markets
Football

Carlos Slim’s América Móvil acquired the media rights in Latin America, outside Brazil, for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games Carlos Slim. Is
Football

When TV Sports Markets asked Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore in June 2010 what had been the most important decision of his 11-year tenure, he didn’t hesitate: taking the league’s international med…
Football

When reports began to emerge from Spain at the beginning of February that the government was planning to impose the collective selling of media rights on professional football, it was easy to glaze over…
Cricket

The recipe is simple: take the world’s most popular sport in a market primed for growth, get in while the sport, the broadcast market or the economy more generally is underdeveloped, invest in long-term p…