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Football

World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.

Football

Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa
Cycling

German audiences crash, but ratings in France hold up

Basketball

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Badminton

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…
Football

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Rugby Union

French rugby union’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby expects to bring in an increased fee for the next period of television rights starting in the 2007-08 season.

Cycling

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
Athletics

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008
Golf

Grass is greener market-by-market for Wimbledon
Football

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
Basketball

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 
Football

Noos-Numéricâble becomes first French cable operator to acquire, rather than just distribute, content
Football

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

Football

France’s Ligue 1 may delay its mobile-rights request for tenders because of a dispute with the players association
Rugby Union

France Télévisions comprehens-ively outbid pay-broadcaster Canal Plus for exclusive rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition
Football

Merger talks between French pay-broadcasters Canal Plus and Télévision Par Satellite should be concluded before Christmas

Football

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the exclusive live rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a four-year deal from 2006-07 to 2009-10