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Equestrian

The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.

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

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
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.
Football

Lack of competition among German broadcasters could lead to Uefa taking at least a 50-per-cent cut in television rights income from its next Champions League deal.
American Football

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.
Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Football

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

American Football

American Football’s Superbowl was broadcast live by four terrestrial channels in Europe.
Football

German commercial channel Sat.1 argues that the highlights rights for the Bundesliga are overpriced.

Football

The Deutsche Fussball Liga, which runs Germany’s top football league, the Bundesliga, has rejected claims that its television deals are at risk.

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.
Minor Sports

The success of the World Rally Championship’s plan to provide live coverage of the event this year is likely to determine the long-term future of the series.