Belgium

The Belgian football association's decision to sell the Flemish television rights of national team matches on a match-by-match basis has spectacularly backfired.

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

European rights fees for Euro 2008 reach same level as those paid for 2006 World Cup

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Free-to-air television audiences in French-speaking Belgium were deprived of seeing home star Justine Henin-Hardenne’s progress to the quarter-finals of this year’s Australian Open

The Sportfive agency has agreed deals for Euro 2008 in Israel and Flemish-speaking Belgium

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 confirmed their joint acquisition of the rights for Euro 2008, in a €100m (£68m) deal brokered by the Sportfive agency. 

Belgian FA accepts offer for rights lower than bid rejected last year

The Dutch and Belgian domestic football leagues, whose pioneering television-rights deals with telecom companies started this month, have begun their seasons with the bulk of live matches accessible to only a handful of intrepid subscribers

Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.