Europe
Premier League retains power to weight packages
Important questions remain about the constitution of the Premier League’s television-rights packages
ARD fails to sell on Olympics rights
Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity
Free-TV is based on winning league
German pay-operator Premiere will launch a free-to-air channel only if it wins the main free-to-air highlights rights for the Bundesliga
Extra exclusivity will help Premiere and Bundesliga
the German football league is thought likely to win a big increase in rights fees for the live Bundesliga rights
Rai’s blow-by-blow story of what happened in league talks
Rai backs up its claim that it struck an in-principle deal with the league
Rai attacks ‘bad faith and illicit action’ of Italian league
Rai has made an astonishing attack on the integrity of the Italian football league and its president, Adriano Galliani
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball and more
Basketball: The US National Basketball Association signed deals for this season with 164 broadcasters covering 215 countries.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Formula One, football, others
Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV
Swiss league’s fee demands are ‘wishful thinking’
The Swiss football league is hoping to replicate the success of some of its European neighbours
Italian TV will fight asking price for Euro 2008
The Sportfive agency has begun talks in Italy for the television rights for football’s Euro 2008
Why Canal Plus legal victory could be a big mistake
Canal Plus’s successful legal challenge against the award of the French League Cup rights to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions could backfire
TV rivals are not ready to challenge Sogecable’s grip
Sogecable is likely to keep its stranglehold on Primera Liga pay-television rights in new deals next summer
Premier’s Brussels deal
Premier League Offering
Premier League set to gain from new rights regime
The English Premier League is almost certain to bring in more money from its next round of domestic rights sales
F1 viewing shows how viewers want home success
Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall
F1 lifts fees in four major markets, even flagging Italy
Formula One has signed long-term deals in four major markets – Italy, Brazil, Australia and Russia – securing rights-fee increases across the board.
Rai sues Lega Calcio over award of Serie A rights
Italian state broadcaster Rai has surprised the domestic television and sports market by sticking to its threat
Skiing starts new talks to centralise world cup rights
The Fédération Internationale de Ski, the sport’s world governing body, will try to buy the television rights for each of the national associations