Germany

Football
Europe

Uefa and the Team agency may struggle to achieve big increases in rights fees for the Champions League in Germany
Europe

RTL Group is understood to be in talks to acquire the Serbian Channel 3,
Europe

RTL, the broadcasting arm of German media giant Bertelsmann, is facing challenging times
Football
Belgium

Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.

Football
Europe

German broadcasters could be forced to pay much more for the Euro 2008 rights because of strong competition.

Football
Europe

German pay-television company Premiere got its last orders from the Bundesliga when it failed to win the league’s rights for public-place viewing.

Football
France

Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
Boxing
Germany

Horseracing:  UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m). 
Europe

Pay-television operators in four of the five top European television markets reported growing numbers of subscribers

Football
Austria

Football World Cup agency Infront is close to acquiring the Milan-based agency Media Partners in a €130 million cash deal.
Europe

European Commission drops claim that public service broadcasters go beyond their remit by buying and broadcasting sport on an exclusive basis
Skiing
Europe

Lack of top German competitors has led to a large drop in audiences since last rights sale

Cricket
Asia

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.
Europe

German viewing also falls, Spain and Italy see audiences rise
Europe

German commercial broadcaster RTL is understood to be in talks with Bernie Ecclestone about extending its present Formula 1 television-rights deal
Football
Europe

A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain
Athletics
Europe

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Football
Asia

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches of the 2014 World Cup from Fifa, football’s world governing body.