Germany
Wimbledon wins, le Tour loses viewers
The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend.
Recovering Premiere surrenders Champions exclusivity
Sat.1 to show first-choice Wednesday matches, observers question incentive for fans to pay for more
Premiere scarred but back on top after short rivalry
Closure of Unity Media's Arena pay sports channel leaves Premiere the only obvious contender for Bundesliga rights
French, German league football will top 2008 list
A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008
NBA, Kirch and UK the biggest TV payers in 2007
The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007
Murdoch plays on Kirch nerves with shock return to Premiere
Rupert Murdoch’s surprise acquisition of a stake in German pay-television platform Premiere is bad news for media entrepreneur Leo Kirch
Football TV revolution brings seismic shift in top markets
Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: NBA, Euro 2008, French, Spanish, Italian football
Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16.
Germany and UK find life is cheaper without EBU
Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights
T-Mobile goes for live World Cup
German mobile phone company T-Mobile is understood to be in talks with the Infront agency
ARD fails to sell on Olympics rights
Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity
Free-TV is based on winning league
German pay-operator Premiere will launch a free-to-air channel only if it wins the main free-to-air highlights rights for the Bundesliga
Extra exclusivity will help Premiere and Bundesliga
the German football league is thought likely to win a big increase in rights fees for the live Bundesliga rights
F1 viewing shows how viewers want home success
Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall
F1 lifts fees in four major markets, even flagging Italy
Formula One has signed long-term deals in four major markets – Italy, Brazil, Australia and Russia – securing rights-fee increases across the board.
Skiing starts new talks to centralise world cup rights
The Fédération Internationale de Ski, the sport’s world governing body, will try to buy the television rights for each of the national associations
Ligue’s five-year plan to lure telecom bidders
League appeals to competition authorities for permission to sell rights for five years
Fifa attracts $4.5bn TV fees for next two World Cups
Deals made directly with broadcasters boost earnings