Portugal

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

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.

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…

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

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: 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.

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

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

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

SIC takes Uefa to task over lack of Euro 2008 access

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

The climax of the football season in Europe attracted big audiences for free-to-air broadcasters across the continent.

Olympics: Italian pay-operator Sky Italia acquired the exclusive media rights for all platforms for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Olympic Games in a deal worth €112m ($168m), with the International O…

Portuguese commercial broadcaster TVI has paid an increase of about 60 per cent to keep the free-to-air rights for Portuguese football’s top-tier league.