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Bundesliga agency winners prepare for key market battles
The Deutsche Fussball Liga has generated about €30 million (£23.5 million) through last week’s sale of three territory-based packages of international Bundesliga rights.
Bernie break clause opens door to Asian TV riches
Pan-regional broadcaster ESPN Star Sports increased rights fees five-fold to retain its hold on Formula One rights in Asia.
TV RIGHTS DEALS 1: Greece, Israel, World Cup Qualifiers and more
Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)
Asian TV set for Fifa battle
Asian TV gears up for World Cup war with agencies
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, tennis and more
Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
SPORTEL TALK: MUTV may be dropped for Milan
Three broadcasters – in Greece, Scandinavia and Japan – are said to be looking to end their rights deals for the Manchester United television channel, MUTV as a result of the departure of England captain Dav…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, rugby league, cricket and more
Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs.Â
Poland, Turkey agree Uefa TV deal
Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Golf, football, tennis and more
Satellite pay-television operator BSkyB renewed four important golf deals: (1) exclusive live rights for two Ryder Cups (in 2006 and 2008) with European Tour Productions; (2) live rights for 34 events…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Boxing, football, golf and more
A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Forget cricket, Ciclitira banks all on Asian golf
David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: DFB deals, Ligue 1, Football League, Serie A
Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the rights for German national team-matches and first-pick matches of the DFB Cup knockout competition in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Olympics and horseracing
Football: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…
Japan wins lower fees for World Cup but it’s still a risk
Main risks for broadcasters are unfavourable timezone and national team potentially failing to qualify
Dentsu agency deal gives it ‘more power’ in Asia
The acquisition by Dentsu of a stake in the Asian agency World Sport Group will give the Japanese advertising and sports agency a much sounder foothold in Asia.
Asian dilemmas, bids and pacts
The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia
How battle for Hong Kong led to Asian bonanza
Rights revenue increases 141 per cent on last round of Asian deals
Agencies wonder if Premier League has set precedent
Broadcasters able to outgun the agencies in head-to-head competition, helping the Premier League bring in hugely increased revenue