Belgium
Team lifts rights fees in first three countries
The Team Marketing agency has secured good increases in television-rights fees for the next round of Champions League deals
Hardball Team tells bidders to put in new offers
Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.
Dutch, Belgian pay-TV copes with no top football
Increases in subscribers bring value of domestic league football rights into question
Team will exploit Benelux battles
The importance of choosing the right time and place for rights negotiations
TV rights-holders keep up attacks on league tender
Belgian broadcasters refuse to rule out taking legal action
Strange case of Belgian TV option
The Belgian football league’s deal with Belgacom was agreed despite a matching-rights option held by the incumbent broadcasters.
TV fails to make use of options for matching rights
Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.
TV rights 2: Indian cricket, golf, darts and mobile deals
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
ADSL warning for pay-TV as first big rights deal is won
Versatel has jumped into the vanguard of an emerging movement by telecoms companies to seriously challenge broadcasters for live television rights.