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Ice Skating: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for the World and European Championships and other events in a four-year deal with the International Skating Union, the sport's world governing…

Audience of 230 million in Europe

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase

EM.Sport acquisitions cover rights management, production, distribution

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Banker’s letter of comfort produced last week by Leo Kirch in support of his deal for German football’s Bundesliga rights

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

MP & Silva suing over collapsed negotiations for €7 million three-year deal, makes complaint to German anti-trust authority

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets