France

Football

Strong competition for the Euro 2008 rights in France should lead to a steep increase in rights fees because of the rivalry among the country’s terrestrial broadcasters.

Football

Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
Football

Football: UK commercial operator ITV and pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights for the FA Cup knock-out competition and England national team matches in a four-year, £425m (€623m) deal with the En…
Cricket

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.

Football

Football: Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Cuatro sublicensed the non-exclusive rights to at least seven matches from the upcoming World Cup from rival broadcaster La Sexta in a deal worth €20m (£14m).

Football

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Football

A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain
Football

Eurosport upset that production of matches was taken out of deal
Football

Relationship between broadcaster and LFP hits new low, as league considers splitting production contract from television rights
Athletics

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Rugby Union

Dramatic tournament attracts best-ever audiences in four key markets

Rugby Union

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

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

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

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.