Europe

Football

Commission heavy-handed in comparison to approach in other European markets
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, plans to expand the central selling of the television rights and sponsorship of the Uefa Cup
Rugby Union

Dramatic tournament attracts best-ever audiences in four key markets

Freeview digital-terrestrial service close to overtaking pay operator BSkyB

Rugby Union

First ever pay-per-view coverage for Top 14
Cricket

Broadcaster to help West Indies Cricket Board sell rights elsewhere
Football

Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock
Football

Government intervention to force free-to-air coverage
Athletics

EBU broadcasters believe that fee expectations of rights-holders are unrealistic
Baseball

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Football

Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s Primera Liga in 2005-06 fell five per cent on the previous season.

Handball

The German Handball League is set to win a big increase in its television rights fees if it accepts an offer by Premiere.

Football

Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League

Athletics

Athletics: The Dentsu agency, acting on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations, brokered three-year deals with broadcasters in China, Korea and New Zealand covering the 2007 and…
Football

Setanta, which acquired two of the Premier League’s six packages of live rights, was the major challenger for the most highly prized package of top matches.

France Télévisions said that the merger of Canal Plus and TPS will create a company with a stranglehold on France’s sports-rights market.

Football

Football: Caribbean sports cable channel SportsMax acquired the free-to-air and pay-television rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014 in a deal worth $18m (£9.3m/€13.7m). 
Football

Rai, Mediaset and Sky will be the big losers if Serie A champions Juventus are relegated to Serie B next season as a result of the match-fixing scandal.