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TV rights 1: World Cup, national team, European football
Football: Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable acquired the television rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with Fifa worth just over €90m (£71m).Â
Opening ceremony draws China’s biggest-ever TV audience
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.
TVI threatens legal action over bartered EBU rights
Portuguese commercial broadcaster TVI is considering taking legal action
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup and other football, Tour de France
Football: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the exclusive television rights in the Indian sub-continent for Fifa events in 2009 and 2010, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup, Champions League, Norwegian deal
Football: German commercial broadcaster RTL sublicensed a package of nine 2010 Fifa World Cup matches from pay-television operator Premiere, with an option to purchase a further nine matches.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Uefa club football, wrestling, cycling and golf
Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Belgian league, Champions League and Uefa Cup
Football: Portuguese mobile operator Optimus acquired exclusive mobile rights in Portugal to Uefa’s Euro 2008 championships, in a sublicensing deal worth close to €1.2m
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, MotoGP and more
Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
Host broadcaster RTP sells 20 of 31 Euro 2004 games
Public service broadcaster will recoup €4m of its €6.5m rights fee spend
Brussels tells EBU: Your new rules aren’t good enough
Proposed changes would lead to non-members being able to acquire substantial Olympics coverage from EBU members on fair and reasonable terms
Has EBU done enough?
EBU facing crucial decision from European Commission on exemption from competition law
England out of step over TV qualifying games
How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
RTP set to sell stake in pay-TV sports channel
Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Commercial TV set to pounce on EBU broadcasters
Commercial broadcasters in several European countries are planning an onslaught on many of the top sports rights.
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Europe 2002
The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.