Belgium

The Team Marketing agency has secured good increases in television-rights fees for the next round of Champions League deals

Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.

Increases in subscribers bring value of domestic league football rights into question

The importance of choosing the right time and place for rights negotiations

Belgian broadcasters refuse to rule out taking legal action

The Belgian football league’s deal with Belgacom was agreed despite a matching-rights option held by the incumbent broadcasters.

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Nimbus will pay $612

Versatel has jumped into the vanguard of an emerging movement by telecoms companies to seriously challenge broadcasters for live television rights.