Italy

Football

Four of Italy’s biggest football clubs have joined forces to block the government bill to impose the collective selling of television rights.

Football

Lega Calcio, the Italian football league, has told the sports rights agencies and merchant banks bidding to handle the next round of media-rights sales that they must bring in at least €1 billion (£750 million) a year
Football

Football: Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal worth €10m (£7m). 
Athletics

Audience of 230 million in Europe

Baseball

Agency is close to deals for basketball and motorsport, plans aggressive bids for French and German football
Boxing

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover
Football

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Air Racing

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final

Baseball

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Football

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Cycling

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Football

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets

Football

World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.

Football

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai was last month fined €230,000
Football

The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, is planning radical changes to how Serie A matches are broadcast