Italy

Baseball

Football: French mobile operator Orange acquired the mobile phone rights to France’s Ligue 1 in a two-year deal, covering the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.

Baseball

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Football

Mediaset’s plan to sell more of its sports programming to mobile phone operators, could be hit by an investigation by the Italian antitrust authority.

Football

The French football league’s €29 million a-year- deal with Orange for its mobile rights places it second among Europe’s top six leagues.

Cricket

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.

Football

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

An exciting championship this year boosted MotoGP television audiences in the sport’s two major European markets, Italy and Spain.

Football

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

Football

Both big clubs and small clubs hope that centralisation will help re-establish status of Uefa Cup
Football

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business

The battle between F1 legend Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso boosted television audiences in three of Europe’s top five markets this season.

Basketball

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

Spanish public-service broadcaster sees nine-per-cent increase in audiences for MotoGP coverage

Basketball

Increased fees and coverage in Italy and Spain, but no renewal in UK, and fees and contract lengths fall in France and Germany
Football

Only Serie A clubs voted on the newly-imposed system, Serie B fear creation of a Serie A 'premier league'
Football

Highly prescriptive legislation shows that "government does not trust the foootball authorities to do things properly and transparently"
Football

Legislation requires collective selling of Italian football rights, possibly in breach of EU competition law
Football

Only one agency invited to make presentations to league on how it could increase value of rights