Italy

Football

International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.

Basketball

A new television deal between the Italian basketball league, Lega Basket, and Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia was hit by the withdrawal late this week of Virtus Bologna, one of the sport’s biggest clubs.

Australian Rules Football

Olympics: Korean free-to-air broadcaster SBS acquired the rights for four Olympic Games from 2010 to 2016.

Football

The Italian match-fixing scandal is continuing to sow confusion in the television-rights market.

Football

The Sportfive agency faces difficult talks in the remaining four big European markets where it has yet to sell the rights for football’s 2008 European Championship.

Football

Only two agencies have been invited to meet the league, despite "nearly everybody in the business" expressing an interest
Football

Uefa Cup's declining popularity puts off mainstream broadcasters, Conto TV steps in with rights purchase
Football

Uefa executive permits state broadcaster Rai to sub-license Euro 2008 matches from Sky Italia
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