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Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.

The Italian league appears to be ploughing a surprisingly lonely furrow in setting up its own channel.

The UCI is planning a controversial overhaul of the rights-distribution and television production of the men’s road World Cup.

Bayern Munich’s secret television deal with the now-defunct Kirch Gruppe may be the most dramatic example of an unorthodox rights deal but it is merely the tip of the iceberg.

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

Athletics Managements and Services have said that selling the television rights for the Golden League will be tough.

Broadcasters able to outgun the agencies in head-to-head competition, helping the Premier League bring in hugely increased revenue

Next question: Can leagues and federations manage without the agencies?

Football: English football’s Premier League began the sales for its next round of international television rights, covering the three-year period from 2004-05 to 2006-07). 

But failure of Gioco Calcio, with latest Serie A defections to Sky Italia, calls into question how serious an alternative league channels are

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as the…

Negotiations upcoming with Union Cycliste Internationale and individual event organisers about World Championship and World Cup events

Temporary channel to cover Olympics and Euro 2004

A matching-rights option in the Belgian football league’s existing television rights contract is causing the league a major legal headache

Football: Sports agency Sportfive acquired the worldwide international television rights for the German Bundesliga in a two-year deal, from 2004-05 to 2005-06, paying over €15m (£10m) per season.

Football:  German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for a package of seven or eight Sunday matches from the 2006 World Cup from agency Infront Sports & Media.