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EBU tells struggling members not to act like rights agencies
Mounting financial pressures have tempted cash-strapped Hungarian broadcaster MTV to sell on World Cup rights acquired through the EBU.
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…
TVR wins 35% cut on national team
Public-service broadcaster regains national team rights after previous incumbent Antena 1 opts not to bid.
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The major agencies are battling to add to their football federation portfolios in the countdown to the Euro 2012 qualifying draw next month.
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…
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UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB is set to agree a deal for cricket’s upcoming World Twenty20 Championship in England, ending a protracted 18-month long negotiation process with rights-holder ESPN Star Sports.
RCS channel plans reveal rift at heart of Romanian deal
RCS-RDS’s plans to launch a new sports channel raise serious questions about the stability of the record television rights deal signed by the country’s top-tier domestic football league last year.
TV Rights Deals 1: Euro 2012, Champions League, La Liga and more
Football: Sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil acquired pay-television rights in Brazil for the 2010 World Cup in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster Globo
Record Romanian deal at risk in row over reach
Romanian commercial broadcaster Antena is resisting pressure to sublicense two weekly matches to a rival channel.
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).
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.
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.
Poland, Turkey agree Uefa TV deal
Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP
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.
Realitatea’s league sponsorship deal leaves bad taste
Taste of victory soured by league title-sponsorship deal with rival broadcaster Realitatea.
Octagon has to quit auction after guarantee is withdrawn
The Octagon agency, favourites to win the English Premier League’s international rights in the Middle East, was thrown into gloom late last month when parent company Interpublic refused to guarantee i…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, horseracing, Formula 1 and more
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…