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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, tennis and more
Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Premier League sets ball rolling for tough Asian battle
Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
SPORTEL TALK: Rights demands are more realistic, says Argentina
Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel
Uefa faces battle to sell Champions in Latin America
Champions League too expensive, does not attract good audiences, difficult to schedule
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, speedway, boxing and more
German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Masters expands world coverage
Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, tennis and more
Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Forget TV fees, for now, hockey wants coverage
The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.
Latin America sews up Cup
The Infront agency has brought in $232 million (£126.6 million/ €182.4 million) from Latin America
Big clubs rebel against Globo’s new bundled deal
Brazil’s four biggest football clubs have refused to ratify a new television rights deal
Brazil bundles football with biofuels
The Clube dos 13, the body that organises Brazil’s top football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, has entered into a partnership with the Brazilian government
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, rugby, golf and more
The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics, F1, Wimbledon, boxing, rugby and more
Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football
Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro 2008, other football, tennis and more
Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship. Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is also set to sign a deal for Euro 2008, paying €120m.
Government attack on football-selling could hit
The Brazilian government has found that the existing system of selling the television rights for the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, is anti-competitive
Rivals, regulator and renegade clubs fight Globo’s rights grip
Biggest rival, Record, willing to pay more than €194 million per season