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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: World Cup, Premier League, Serie A and other deals
Football: French commercial broadcaster TF1 sublicensed rights for the 2010 World Cup to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus in deals worth a combined €33m ($4…
TV2 looks for pay-TV transformation with Premier deal
Commercial operator TV2 has snatched the market's biggest pay-television subs-driver from Canal Plus.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, IAAF, Boxing, World Rally and Olympics deals
American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
Football still in a league of its own
Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.
IEC claims strong start ahead of big market deals
Athletics World Championships rights sold in Sweden, Greece and Portugal
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: National team, Turkish and Swedish league deals
Football: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevisión acquired the domestic rights for Chilean national team matches from 2011 to 2014 in a four-year deal with Chile’s National Association of Professional Fo…
Premier League scare lifts Swedish fees at the last
Loss of Premier League rights prompts TV4 Group to swoop for Sweden’s domestic football league and national team rights.
Medge to divide and conquer as pre-deal comes to light
Agency aims to break with tradition in Nordics and sell Premier League rights market-by-market
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Fifa, Premier League, national team and FA Cup deals
Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…
Ambitious Medge spoils Christmas for Canal Plus
Surprise win for local agency in Nordic rights auction for the Premier League.
Step-change for Premier League as bidding fever grips Europe
Increase in European media rights fees a sign of increasing value of Premier League even in Europe's developed markets.
Pay-TV fault-line cracks free-to-air Euro 2012 bid
The battle between rival Scandinavian platforms Canal Digital and Viasat has driven apart the free-to-air consortium that was aiming to land the rights for Euro 2012 in a pan-regional deal.
MTV3 keeps F1 driver on road to pay-TV growth
MTV3 has extended its deal for Formula One until 2012, securing what has been the cornerstone of its mini-pay offering for a further three years.
Federation pins rising hopes on usual suspects
The Swedish football federation has received a good response to its recent television tender for national team and domestic league rights, but there are signs that it will face as tough a sell as last time.
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Mediapro is close to finalising domestic mobile rights deals for Spanish football’s La Liga, the first such deals to be agreed after a three-year hiatus caused by the football war between Mediapro and Sogecable.
TV Rights Deals 1: Football: Asian English Premier League deals and more
Football: The English Premier League agreed deals across most of Asia for the next three-year period, from 2010-11 to 2012-13
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Next week’s bidding deadline for English Premier League rights in most of Asia will kick off a frenzied period of activity for the league, with tenders being issued shortly afterwards in Greater China, Africa, Australasia and Europe.
Finnish football finds fortune in pay-TV boom
Recent growth in the pay-television market has helped Finland’s top-tier domestic football league gain its first significant rights-fee.