Netherlands

Sportfive valuation at £604,000 per match is double the amount broadcasters claim they will earn in ad revenue

Curling: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has reportedly agreed a six-year deal with the Canadian Curling Association.

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.

Cable operator UPC has signed a one-year deal with the Eredivisie, the country’s top domestic football league.

The UK round of showjumping’s Samsung Super League will have no coverage on the country's terrestrial television.

Also: UPC get Premier League rights in the Netherlands, Fox Sports win in the United States

Football: English football’s Premier League began the sales for its next round of international television rights, covering the three-year period from 2004-05 to 2006-07). 

But failure of Gioco Calcio, with latest Serie A defections to Sky Italia, calls into question how serious an alternative league channels are

Rights sales process up and running with auctions in different territories

John de Mol’s Talpa Capital is one of four individual broadcasters which will submit bids to Uefa next week for the rights to football’s 2008 European Championship

Dutch football’s top domestic league, the Eredivisie, will decide next week whether to take a big gamble by awarding its free-television and pay rights to two new companies

Commercial broadcasters have questioned the effectiveness of the rights sublicensing scheme drawn up to placate the European Commission by the EBU.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

The Eredivisie expects strong competition for its mobile-telephone rights, from Dutch and international operators.

The Eredivisie, the Netherlands’ top domestic football league, is set to launch a new television-rights tender

John de Mol, pioneer of the Big Brother and Fear Factor reality-television formats, is about to shake up the sports-rights market in the Netherlands