Europe

Football

Uefa expects to enjoy a significant increase in the value of the next round of Champions League rights in Italy

German viewing also falls, Spain and Italy see audiences rise

F1 gamble proves Finns will pay to watch TV sport

German commercial broadcaster RTL is understood to be in talks with Bernie Ecclestone about extending its present Formula 1 television-rights deal
Football

A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain
Football

Eurosport upset that production of matches was taken out of deal
Football

Relationship between broadcaster and LFP hits new low, as league considers splitting production contract from television rights
Athletics

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches of the 2014 World Cup from Fifa, football’s world governing body. 
Golf

Pay-television newcomers Setanta in the UK and Arena in Germany are bidding strongly for US golf rights against the established pay-operators in their countries.

Baseball

Olympics: Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster TV Record acquired the Brazilian media rights across all platforms for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympics Games in London in a $60m (£31m/€45m) de…
Football

Swisscom began an aggressive move into the country’s sports-rights market this week with the acquisition of the rights for domestic league football.

Football

British Telecom will look to acquire more sports-rights content after becoming the latest European telecoms company to enter the market.

Football

The English Premier League’s £82 million (€119 million) deal for live rights in Ireland is a record sports-rights deal for the country.

Football

The German football league this week ended its acrimonious dispute with Deutsche Telekom over the telecom company’s plan to use its Bundesliga internet rights to reach cable and satellite television sets.

Football

Italy’s government is seizing upon the match-fixing scandal which has engulfed Serie A to push through new measures on television rights for football.

Basketball

Basketball: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the rights to the 2009 and 2011 European Championships and the 2006 and 2010 World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball…
Cricket

Football:  Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia acquired the pay-television rights to all 64 matches of the 2006 World Cup, 39 of which it will show exclusively, in a deal with the Infront agency.  Sky is paying an estimated €40m (£27.3m) for the rights.  The deal also includes the rights to this year’s Fifa Confederations Cup, the Fifa World Youth Championships and the 16 26-minute preview programmes produced by Infront (page 1).