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Audiovisual Sport, the football rights-holding company for Spain’s two main pay-television companies, said it valued the rights of all 20 clubs in the Primera Liga at €200m a season, 25 per cent less tha…
Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Football

EC believes bigger EBU broadcasters do not need collective-buying power framework
Football

The emergence of wild-card bidders for the Champions League television rights could kick start competition in Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Athletics

Athletics Managements and Services have said that selling the television rights for the Golden League will be tough.

The basic public right to information is enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Two months after Ecclestone closed his multi-channel ppv coverage of Formula 1, Premiere wants to create its own multi-channel service.

Demands by the big news agencies for greater news access to sports events looks set to lead to a major row involving sports rights-holders, sports agencies and the EC.
Basketball

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the rights for German national team-matches and first-pick matches of the DFB Cup knockout competition in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to…
Football

Microsoft bid as new era beckons Norwegian football
Rugby Union

Late kick-offs work, at least for broadcasters of the Six Nations tournament in France and the UK.  And they would like more of them.
Rugby Union

Surprise within industry at tight timeline and offer of one-tournament deal only
Football

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.

Football

The French football league said this week that it would have no qualms about awarding all its commercial rights to a single company when it puts the rights out to tender in October.

Football

French sports minister Jean-François Lamour is to issue a decree allowing the French football league to sell its rights exclusively to one bidder.
Football

Football: The English Football Association agreed a deal with sports agency Sportfive for second-party rights for England’ home friendly internationals, giving Sportfive the rights for selling to broadcasters i…
Football

Also: UPC get Premier League rights in the Netherlands, Fox Sports win in the United States