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Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Broadcasters find they can live without the FA Cup in hard times

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset has acquired live rights for five of the remaining matches in the 2012-13 Copa del Rey domestic knockout football competition

Eurosport has blamed the economic downturn in Spain for the pan-European sports broadcaster being removed from the country’s pay-television operator Canal Plus.

Medge looks for premier League bridge into Polish TV market; NC Plus closes in on speedway

Skynet pays a high price to keep Forever at arm's length

TVE cuts will hurt La Roja

Jesús López Cabeza, the president of the Forta group of regional public-service broadcasters in Spain, has warned the organisation’s members against acquiring football rights at “prices [that] do not c…

EBU warns federations that opting for agency cash might not work out in the long term; EBU renewals and losses in 2012

Marca TV feasting on tasty 'leftovers' as recession bites

Marca TV, the Spanish digital-terrestrial channel managed by the Mediapro agency, has acquired rights for all matches involving the Spain national team at the 2012 Fifa Futsal World Cup, which got underway…

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TF1 pays big increase to hang on to Rugby World Cup

The G-30, a group of Spanish football clubs which sell their media rights jointly, are claiming €21 million ($27 million) from Real Mallorca, one of their members, in the Spanish Court of Arbitration f…

Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe