Europe

Football

Mixed news for European domestic cup football audiences
Football

Head of Italy office set to leave, Italian operation under review
Football

TF1 appears to have done its best to undermine the coverage of most of the remaining games by the rival M6 channel.

Basketball

Robert Müller von Vultejus explains agency's branching into production and broadcast
Football

UK television audiences for English football’s FA Cup showed a healthy increase this season.

Biathlon

Rights-holders and commercial broadcasters united in opposition

Football

Television audiences for BSkyB's coverage of English Premier League football dropped marginally in 2005-06.

Football

It was a one-off, unparalleled, cost-free advertisement for pay-services

German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global
Football

German football’s Bundesliga is facing an unprecedented row over the sale of its television rights.

Football

English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.
Football

Mediapro is bidding aggressively for the television rights of Barcelona and other top Spanish football clubs.

Cycling

Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from  the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …
Australian Rules Football

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315
Football

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.

Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Football

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

Skiing

Weekday lunchtime television slots mean Swedish television audiences miss Anja Paerson's medal winning performances