Netherlands
Sportfive wants slice of Eredivisie
The Sportfive agency is in talks with Dutch football’s top-tier league, the Eredivisie, about taking a minority stake in its new television channel.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, MotoGP and more
Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
NOS wins year’s respite, but next deal will be tough
One year extension to Eredivisie highlights deal signed unopposed
Sharing Premier League ‘doesn’t work’ in Holland
Sharing has led to RTL losing heavily on the rights and has not helped Canal Plus win many subscribers
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.
NOS wins no-option World Cup
Failure by Holland to qualify could cost NOS €8m
Collapse of UPC-Canal Plus deal is bad for both sides
UPC will have to delay plans to launch sports channel in Netherlands
F1’s TV season is saved by last five races for title
Formula One television viewing rose in four out of the five top European television markets this year, according to a survey by TV Sports Markets. Germany was the exception.
Aggressive RTL switches channel
However CEO Van Westerloo will be reluctant to tinker too much with successful RTL4
Why regulator may like new plan
New package would require collective selling, but would lead to at least two broadcaster showing matches
Eredivisie may offer live rights to terrestrial TV
Clubs would risk undermining value of pay-television live rights package
England out of step over TV qualifying games
How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
F1 blow for Dutch RTL
van Westerloo: RTL5 must acquire premium sports rights or consider moving in a different direction
SPORTEL TALK: F1 competition
Dutch commercial broadcasters RTL5 and SBS6 are competing for Formula 1 rights, with RTL5’s existing three-year, $1.5 million a season deal expiring at the end of this year.
SPORTEL TALK: Zidane, Beckham and Co lift foreign sales for La Liga
The value of the Spanish league’s international rights for the three years starting this season has increased on the last, thanks to the big-player signings made by Real Madrid (Zidane, Figo and Beckham) a…
UPC to start sports channel
Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Dutch clubs forced to sell their own TV rights
The Eredivisie has lost its appeal against a ruling by the national anti-trust authority banning the collective sale of rights by the league.
Eredivisie loses joint-selling appeal
The Dutch competition authority, the Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriet, rejected an appeal by the Eredivisie, the country’s top football league, in confirming an earlier ruling which said the joint selling o…