Europe
How Dutch league gambled on new – and old – media
The new television rights deals agreed by the Eredivisie, are a dual gamble
Premier League tops TV table for fees per game
French football’s Ligue 1 rights the most expensive in the world
TV rights 2: Indian cricket, golf, darts and mobile deals
TV RIGHTS 1: football, motorcycling, Formula One and others
Darts hits bullseye with record
SBS6 acquired the exclusive rights for all Professional Darts Corporation events in the Netherlands.
How Serie A clubs beat Madrid and Man Utd for TV
Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid was the world’s biggest earning club in 2004-05.
Kentaro becomes multi-federation football agency
Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.
Russian league set for more pay-TV
NTV Plus set to acquire domestic rights for the Russian Premier League.
Premier League likely to split delayed-rights
English football’s Premier League is likely to split the sale of its delayed-as-live television rights into two packages in its forthcoming tender.
Premiere deal with DSF starts salvage operation
Premiere, the German pay-television broadcaster, has salvaged something of its reputation following its deal with DSF.
TV rights 2: African Nations Cup football, handball and more
TV rights 1: Euro 2008, other football, tennis and more
Silva looks for Serie A stranglehold
Media Partners & Silva set to take a long-term stranglehold on the international rights of Serie A clubs.
Talpa waves big money in drive for market share
Talpa signs deal for Dutch national football team away qualifiers.
RTL sells ski-jump event after losing scheduling fight
RTL sold on the rights for one of this year’s World Cup ski-jumping events after a row with the FIS
Rai to join ERT as first rights buyers
Rai set to acquire rights for Euro 2008 from Sportfive.
The bookie who bet on TV
Shock award of international media rights for German league football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Tennis, skiing, boxing, darts, athletics and more
Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.