Netherlands

Football

Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.

Football

Sportfive has postponed the selling of Euro 2008 pay-television rights in the Netherlands after the only bidder offered less than €500,000.

Baseball

Olympics: Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster TV Record acquired the Brazilian media rights across all platforms for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympics Games in London in a $60m (£31m/€45m) de…
Football

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.

American Football

American football:  The US National Football League signed two more television deals: an eight-year deal with Disney-owned sports cable network ESPN for Monday night games, worth $1.
Football

The Team Marketing agency has secured good increases in television-rights fees for the next round of Champions League deals
Football

Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Football

Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.
Football

Football:  The Dentsu agency acquired the rights in Japan to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in a deal with world football’s governing body.

Football

Experts not convinced €30.5 million a season investment will be successful.
Football

Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS6 extended its contract for the television rights for the Dutch national football team’s matches
Football

Increases in subscribers bring value of domestic league football rights into question
Football

De Mol is in talks about buying three television channels in Netherlands
Football

Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa is showing matches from Italy’s Serie A league its website.

Football

The importance of choosing the right time and place for rights negotiations
Football

The new television rights deals agreed by the Eredivisie, are a dual gamble

Cricket

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Nimbus will pay $612
Darts

SBS6 acquired the exclusive rights for all Professional Darts Corporation events in the Netherlands.