Netherlands

Football

Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.

Athletics

Poor viewing for the European athletics championships in Gothenburg will not help the European Athletics Association get the fee increase it is trying to get.

Basketball

Football: Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP acquired the rights to the national team’s Euro 2008 home qualifiers and friendlies in a two-year deal, 2006-07 to 2007-08, with the Olivedesportos agency

Australian Rules Football

Olympics: Korean free-to-air broadcaster SBS acquired the rights for four Olympic Games from 2010 to 2016.

American Football

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

Cycling

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

Football

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed
Football

Dutch football’s top-tier league, the Eredivisie, is in need of a miracle to avoid a cut in revenue
Ice Skating

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase
Football

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Football

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

Cycling

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Football

Changed package structure required if Eredivisie is to get increased fees
Football

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

Football

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

Cycling

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

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

Athletics

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