Europe

Future pay-per-view events could be harmed after Harrison capitulation - Warren

Media rights for Spain's La Liga to hit €588.5 million in 2011-12 season

Telenet secures Belguim's top football league rights with aggressive bid

MP & Silva pays 50-per-cent increase for French Open rights and gives free-to-air coverage guarantees

Comcast-NBCU network lands $4.38 billion four-games US Olympics deal

Romanian pay-TV rivals bolster sports content...Final Copa deals in place...Liga rights talks in Venezuela...Premier League piracy case delay

Tennis: The MP & Silva agency acquired the European rights outside France for the French Open in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2017, with the Fédération Française de Tennis, the French tennis federation. T

Badminton: Indian sports broadcaster Neo Sports signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, for the Badminton World Federation World Superseries, with the global rights-holder, the Malaysia-based Total…

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF renewed their rights for the home matches of the men’s national team, women’s national team, men’s domestic league third-tier (3. Liga

Football: Spanish commercial broadcasters Telecinco and Cuatro acquired the rights to Euro 2012 from Uefa, European football’s governing body. The deal is worth just less than €65m ($92.3m)

England's Football League touting global rights for $60 million over three seasons amidst sceptism from market experts

Canal Plus and the Polsat Media Group win Ekstraklasa rights to leave TP-TVN alliance with nothing

Increased pay-TV revenues for Euro Qualifiers the key to Uefa's targets

Uefa enjoys big increases for its Champions League and Europa League rights in Asia

Lagardère restructure plans prompt key staff departures...UFC targets Asian expansion...Mediapro moves on Portugal...ITV beats BBC-IMG

New viewing trends highlights the potential value of online rights especially in developing markets, report says

Al Jazeera makes aggressive move to get into sports-rights business

Handball: Setanta Africa, the sub-Saharan Africa sports broadcaster, acquired the rights for the European Handball Federation Champions League Final Four in a deal with the Sportsman Media Group