Ireland
TV Rights Deals 2: Basketball, Winter Sports and more
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.
Heineken Cup drinks to pay-TV rivalry
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.
Public-service TV’s sports-rights buying under attack
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.
Domestic football needs bundling to survive, says FA
The Football Association of Ireland hit back this week at suggestions that it has undervalued the media rights for the domestic football league
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup and other football, Tour de France
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NHL, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, golf and more
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).
Champions League fees double as TV3 fights for rights
Competition between Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ and commercial rival TV3 resulted in Champions League rights fees more than doubling
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Rugby, ice sports and more
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…
Why competition for Premier’s Irish rights was muted
RTE and Setanta beat modest bid from TV3
England out of step over TV qualifying games
How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
BSkyB sticks with ppv, after high bid for 3rd package
Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv
Irish TV may win own package of Premier rights
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.
How Irish FA changed its deals
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.
Irish FA asks state to repay Sky’s lost exclusivity cash
The Football Association of Ireland is demanding compensation of €2 million (£1.44 million) from the Irish government.
Setanta channel ‘needs to find niche’ to be viable
The plan by Setanta Sport to launch a dedicated sports channel early next year was greeted with scepticism.
New superleague is TV success, says Nations Cup
The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.
Sky football deal safe from new law
The Irish Government is to abandon plans to use listed-events legislation retrospectively to strike down BSkyB’s deal for the matches of the national football team.
Late slots show Six Nations how to win viewers
Late kick-offs work, at least for broadcasters of the Six Nations tournament in France and the UK. And they would like more of them.