Portugal

Commercial broadcasters in several European countries are planning an onslaught on many of the top sports rights.
Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Football

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.

The basic public right to information is enshrined in Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Demands by the big news agencies for greater news access to sports events looks set to lead to a major row involving sports rights-holders, sports agencies and the EC.
Basketball

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Football

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.

Football

The progress of host-nation Portugal and rank outsiders Greece to the final of football’s Euro 2004 provided much needed financial boosts to the two countries’ struggling public-service broadcasters.

Basketball

Football: Portuguese state broadcaster RTP completed the sublicensing of 19 of the 31 matches in this year’s football European Championship to rival commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI (TV Sports Markets 7…
Football

Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP is set to enter the bidding for the television rights for football’s 2006 World Cup to the surprise of television-business insiders
Basketball

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Cricket

Cricket: Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms made a $308m (£174m/ €257m) bid for the worldwide television rights to Indian cricket for four years, from October 2004 to September 2008.

Football

Portuguese commercial channel TVI acquired the domestic free-to-air television rights for the country’s top football league

The Athens Olympics attracted impressive ratings for Europe’s public-service broadcasters
Football

Sports agencies have had a busy fortnight negotiating deals for the opening round of 2006 World Cup
Football

Portugal’s top football league, the Super Liga, is without a domestic free-to-air television deal only two weeks before the start of the season
Cricket

SIC takes Uefa to task over lack of Euro 2008 access
Football

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.