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Vancouver: another example of sport’s ratings power
A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, IAAF, Boxing, World Rally and Olympics deals
American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
TV Rights Deals 1: Football – Serie A, Euro 2012 and English FA deals
Football: Lega Calcio, the body representing Italian football’s top clubs, agreed a number of deals for the domestic and international rights for the country’s top two divisions, Serie A and Serie B, …
Everyone’s a winner in cosy US deal
Fox Sports International acquired English Premier League rights in the US and Latin America in deals worth some 50 per cent more than the value of the present deals.
TV Rights 1: Euro Champs, Premier League and Indian cricket deals
Football: Middle East pay-broadcaster Al Jazeera Sports acquired the rights for Euro 2012 and 2016 in a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, worth $100m (€67m) overall. Al
TV Rights Deals 2: All the latest cricket, cycling, extreme sport and ESPN UK deals
Basketball: PCTV-owned Mexican pay-broadcaster TVC Deportes extended it deal for the live rights to the ACB Spanish Basketball League in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
TV Rights Deals 1: Scottish and English Premier League rights and more
Football: UK pay-broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN acquired the rights for the Scottish Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, with the league having an option to extend the deal for a…
TV Rights Deals 1: Football’s Confederations Cup, Uefa, Bundesliga and SPL deals
Football: German sports channel DSF acquired the rights for the 2009 Fifa Confederations Cup in June. DSF will show 14 games live including the final and the third-place playoff match
TV Rights Deals 1: Football: the latest Fifa, Uefa and Americas deals
Football: Japanese pay-broadcaster SkyPerfecTV acquired the communication-satellite (CS) rights for all 64 matches of the 2010 World Cup in a deal with the Dentsu agency
TV Rights Deals 1: Bundesliga, Bulgaria and more
Football: The Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL), representing the top two tiers of German football, Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2, agreed a number of media rights deals covering the four-year period from 2009-10…
World Cup deal in doubt as downturn squeezes OTI
A Latin American deal for the next two football World Cups in 2010 and 2014 may have to be renegotiated, with local broadcasters struggling to meet rights fee payments against the background of global recession.
TV Rights Deals 1: Football World Cup, Brazil and more
Football: The African Union of Broadcasters signed a deal with Fifa for the English, French and Portuguese-language television and radio rights to the 2010 World Cup.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics and more
Olympics: Spanish media group Telefónica’s Latin American digital media arm Terra acquired the internet and mobile platform rights to the 2008 Olympic Games.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, tennis and more
Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Premier League sets ball rolling for tough Asian battle
Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
SPORTEL TALK: Rights demands are more realistic, says Argentina
Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel
Uefa faces battle to sell Champions in Latin America
Champions League too expensive, does not attract good audiences, difficult to schedule