Netherlands

The Athens Olympics attracted impressive ratings for Europe’s public-service broadcasters
Football

Sports agencies have had a busy fortnight negotiating deals for the opening round of 2006 World Cup

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
Football

Flagship RTL4 to show sport for first time in years
Football

Proposed packaging of rights would almost certainly require Dutch anti-trust authority to overturn rule banning collective selling
Football

Proposed packaging of rights will undermine pay-television live rights and highlights
Football

Dutch football’s top-tier league, the Eredivisie, is yet to get funding for its planned television channel
Football

Netherlands currently the only major European country where free-to-air highlights cost more than live rights

Football

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.

Basketball

Cricket: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the exclusive rights for the India Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 competition set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a five-year deal…
Football

Year-end subscriber figures for football-driven pay-television over telephone networks in Europe will neither excite the enthusiasts nor worry traditional television.

Baseball

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Football

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Football

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Football

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

The battle between F1 legend Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso boosted television audiences in three of Europe’s top five markets this season.

Football

The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.