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Platform-specific packages aimed at pitting broadcasters against mobile and internet operators for new media rights

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Matching rights option exercised to secure €6 million per year, three-year deal

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa

Finnish viewing figures for ski-jumping’s blue-riband Four Hills tournament soared

The expansion this season of Sweden’s top-flight football league, the Allsvenskan, from 14 to 16 clubs, has caused friction between the existing television-rights holders and the Kentaro agency

Danish football clubs will thank the country’s competition authority after its intervention led directly to the signing of new television rights deals

Olympics, international football, ice hockey, skiing and athletics protected

MTV3 offers double current domestic ice-hockey rights fee

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year

Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV