Netherlands

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Changed package structure required if Eredivisie is to get increased fees

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Pay-television operator Modern Times Group has for the first time acquired television rights for Denmark’s popular domestic handball leagues.

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011

Sale of Tien to RTL Nederland likely to end three-year boom in Dutch sports rights market

The European Commission is thought likely to rule early next year that Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS must pay back state subsidies

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall

The Dutch and Belgian domestic football leagues, whose pioneering television-rights deals with telecom companies started this month, have begun their seasons with the bulk of live matches accessible to only a handful of intrepid subscribers

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 acquired the free-to-air Champions League rights for a further three-years, from 2006-07 to 2008-09

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has filled the gaping hole in its schedule with two top foreign football leagues

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.