Ireland

Football

A reincarnation of sports broadcaster Setanta looks to have secured at least its short-term future in Ireland.
Football

Football: UK pay-broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN acquired the rights for the Scottish Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, with the league having an option to extend the deal for a…
Rugby Union

Ireland’s first Grand Slam victory since 1948 helped rugby union Six Nations broadcasters in Ireland and the UK post record television audiences for the 2009 championship.

Athletics

Asian Games: Hong Kong pay-broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the exclusive television and internet rights for the 2010 Asian Games, in Guangzhou, in a deal worth an estimated $1m (€780,000).
Basketball

Basketball: Brazilian commercial broadcaster Globo is to acquire the rights for the new, top-flight domestic basketball league, Novo Basquete Brasil, for R$1.5m (€474,000/ $633,710) a season.
Rugby Union

European club competition the Heineken Cup last week became the third rugby union rights property in the last month to secure a healthy rise in rights fees from the UK television market.

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.
Football

The Football Association of Ireland hit back this week at suggestions that it has undervalued the media rights for the domestic football league
Cycling

Football: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the exclusive television rights in the Indian sub-continent for Fifa events in 2009 and 2010, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Basketball

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 
Football

Competition between Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ and commercial rival TV3 resulted in Champions League rights fees more than doubling
Basketball

Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…
Football

RTE and Setanta beat modest bid from TV3
Football

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
Football

Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv
Football

England’s Premier League is likely to be forced to sell its television rights for the Republic of Ireland as part of the international rights package rather than as part of the main UK package.
Football

Pay-television company BSkyB paid €7.5 million for the exclusive live-rights for all Ireland’s home internationals – friendlies and qualifiers for Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup.
Football

The Football Association of Ireland is demanding compensation of €2 million (£1.44 million) from the Irish government.