Middle East

Italian market about to get very hard for rights-holders as Sky and Mediaset cosy up

Final agency bids are in but Uefa still has talking to do to close deal for qualifiers

How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one

Italy follows the UK with pay-free F1 split; France could be next if TF1 lowballs

ECB enjoys healthy rights-fee increase in new ESS deal

Al Jazeera acquires Copa rights

Al Jazeera holds the key to two big rights tenders but may not bid in either of them

Premier League has listened to ESPN, now it's up to ESPN to decide if it wants to compete with the big boys

Champions League value up by 30% in top 5 European markets

ESS bucks the trend and gets increase from Sky

Uefa positions itself nicely to cherry-pick top markets

IMG Media helps US Open land 50 per cent increase in Asian rights

EBU pays healthy increase for World Cup despite recession

Uefa in last-minute talks with Al Jazeera and AMI to buy back England qualifier matches

Al Jazeera stocks up in US ahead of channel launch

Pay-television sports broadcaster Charlton has acquired all rights in Israel for the Uefa Europa League in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with Uefa

Formula One media rights-holders in Germany and Finland will not travel to this weekend’s Bahrain grand prix due to concerns over security in the country, although they are still expected to show coverage f…