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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World, European and domestic football
Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.
Licence awards open way for top sports challenge
The switch-over in Finland from analogue to digital-terrestrial television transmission could shake up the country’s “quiet and closed” sports-rights market.
Four Hills hit highs despite bad weather
Pay competition brings in listed events
Olympics, international football, ice hockey, skiing and athletics protected
Ice-hockey threat provides early test for new Canal Plus
F1 viewing shows how viewers want home success
Canal Plus pays high fee for Serie A
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Latest football deals in Europe and Americas
Ice-hockey, rugby and handball pull in the viewers
Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Aussie Rules football, rugby league and tennis
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice Hockey and others
Ice hockey league hopes pay-TV will boost gates
Canal Plus and SBS will gain by bidding together
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics and football
Olympics: The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics
Canal Plus: We want all top rights
Canal Plus may give up old habits for Modern Times
Canal Plus is considering a carriage deal with the direct-to-home satellite platform of its main rival, Viasat.
Rai fashionably late for skiing’s big party
EBU set to get money back for Italian skiing rights.
Canal Plus has no room for golf
Decision to hand back golf rights allows rival to recover monopoly on top Tour golf and launch golf channel.