France

Europe’s top satellite pay-television operators will be casting envious glances at the UK’s BSkyB, after it enjoyed what analysts described as a “flawless quarter” to end-June.

Football

Speculation is mounting that Singapore’s two rival pay-broadcasters may bid jointly for the English Premier League rights when they come on the market.
Football

Football: Indonesian pay-broadcaster Telkomvision acquired a package of Serie A rights for the 2009-10 season in a one-year deal with the MP&Silva agency, renewing an existing deal
Australian Rules Football

Baseball: Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport acquired the rights for next month’s 2009 Baseball World Cup in a deal with the International Baseball Federation.
Athletics

The IAAF has returned to the European Broadcasting Union in its attempts to find a buyer for the European media rights for its events for the next four-year period.
Cycling

The return of Lance Armstrong to this year’s Tour de France looks to have played a key role in driving strong television audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Football

Football: Italian satellite broadcaster Sky Italia acquired the live satellite rights for all Serie A matches from 2010-11 to 2011-12 in a deal with Lega Calcio. Sky will pay €580m ($824m) a season.
Australian Rules Football

Basketball: PCTV-owned Mexican pay-broadcaster TVC Deportes extended it deal for the live rights to the ACB Spanish Basketball League in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Football

The pay-television ambitions of Orange appear to have suffered a major blow after the country’s competition authority advised that its present distribution strategy could not be justified.

The structural reorganisation at Sportfive continues a three-year cycle of evolution since it was first formed in 2001, according to Stephane Schindler.
Football

The French Football Federation has come up with an innovative tender in an attempt to avoid a significant cut in television revenue for French national team matches.
Football

Football: Sports broadcaster ESPN acquired the UK rights previously held by Setanta for 46 Premier League matches from the 2009-10 season and 23 matches a season for the three years from 2010-11 to 2012-13,…
Football

Orange is to target French Open tennis rights as it returns to the sports acquisition trail, having put rights-buying on hold in recent months because of a continuing legal row over the distribution of its Orange Sport channel.
Football

Football: Portuguese commercial broadcaster SIC sublicensed the rights for 18 of the 56 matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup from public-service broadcaster RTP.
Athletics

Athletics: US free-to-air broadcaster NBC extended its deal with the New York City Road Runners for the television rights for the New York City marathon for three years from 2009 to 2011
Football

The fate of UK pay broadcaster Setanta was hanging by a thread late this week, as TV Sports Markets went to press.
Football

The cumulative average television audience across the big five European markets for this season’s Champions League final was 27 per cent up on the final in 2007-08.

Football

Football: Spanish media group Prisa agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency for the exclusive pay-television rights of one La Liga match each week, to be shown on Prisa’s Canal Plus premium channel, and t…