France

Football

The French football league’s new system for distributing television rights income is a temporary truce that is unlikely to stop the top clubs from pushing to sell their television rights individually.

Football

Clubs allowed to include rights as assets on their balance sheets
Football

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi won twice over in this year’s Champions League.
Cycling

Italian state broadcaster threats to renege on agreed contribution to Euro 2004 cost
Basketball

The French basketball league, Ligue Nationale de Basketball, has negotiated a much improved television rights fee for coverage of the domestic championship.

Athletics

France Télévisions left footing a hefty production bill
Football

With British Sky Broadcasting expected to walk away with all the live television rights for the next three-year contract – bids have to be submitted by next Friday, July 11 – there are three key questions: 1. Ho
Football

The French football league has put a brave face on the compromise deal between rival pay-television platforms Canal Plus and Télévision Par Satellite.

Football

The Italian league appears to be ploughing a surprisingly lonely furrow in setting up its own channel.

Commercial broadcasters in several European countries are planning an onslaught on many of the top sports rights.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Rugby Union

The BBC increased its viewing figures for rugby union’s Six Nations championship this year by 770,000.
Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

Boxing

France’s Canal Plus is considering a plan to show the fights of top French boxers on pay-per-view.

Audiences for the first round of the Formula 1 World Championship plummeted in three of the top four European markets.
Football

Football

Bayern Munich’s secret television deal with the now-defunct Kirch Gruppe may be the most dramatic example of an unorthodox rights deal but it is merely the tip of the iceberg.