Germany

The FIA could struggle to find a promoter for the World Rally Championship series on the terms laid out in its recent tender.

Football

The Deutsche Fussball Liga has generated about €30 million (£23.5 million) through last week’s sale of three territory-based packages of international Bundesliga rights.

Football

Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Cycling

English football’s Premier League has blocked its Greek licensee Nova from showing its Saturday 3pm matches.
Football

Eurosport has given the Deutsch Fussball Liga an excellent start to its international rights sales for Germany’s top-tier Bundesliga.

Commercial channels across Europe are challenging state broadcasters’ acquisition of major sports rights, as part of wider lobbying for stricter controls and limits on the financing of the public-service sector.
Basketball

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Football

The Deutsche Fussball Liga cancelled the €3 billion (£2.4 billion), six-year deal it had agreed for its media rights with Leo Kirch’s Sirius group.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.

The early signs are not good for the European Broadcasting Union
Cycling

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope
Football

The compromise on highlights coverage offered to the Bundeskartellamt
Football

Dr. Bernhard Heitzer, president of the Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s federal cartel office, last week delivered the following ruling on the media-rights arrangements of the Deutsche Fussball Liga
Football

A legal challenge to last week’s ruling by the German cartel office on the collective selling of the Bundesliga media rights would stand a high chance of success, say lawyers.
Cricket

Olympics: Spanish media group Telefónica’s Latin American digital media arm Terra acquired the internet and mobile platform rights to the 2008 Olympic Games.

MotoGP commercial rights-owner goes market-by-market, despite offer of increase in fees and exposure
Football

“We will be having words. [It is] the most annoying cock-up imaginable.” Dieter Gruschwitz, ZDF director of sport, reacts to the partial blackout of the Germany-Turkey semi-final. N

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport said this week that it is not for sale, despite rumours to the contrary and strong interest in the company