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The court date set for this month that was to rule, once and for all, on the ownership of television rights to Spain’s football Liga has been postponed by at least six months, to next June or July.
DirecTV set for La Liga renewal
Spanish rise, Italian fall despite Rossi’s return to the top
Spanish television audiences for the 2008 MotoGP season rose for the third year in succession, with young local riders Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo both contending for the championship.
ITV bows out with a bang but German slide continues
Despite the most exciting Formula One season in recent memory, with the driver’s and constructor’s championships going down to the wire, television audiences fell in a number of major European markets.
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Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.
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Forthcoming negotiations for the domestic rights for English rugby union’s Guinness Premiership will act as an interesting barometer of the state of the UK sports rights market, three months before the start of football’s Premier League rights talks.
TV Rights Deals 1: Champions League, World Cup, Bundesliga and more
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Public-service TV’s sports-rights buying under attack
TV Rights Deals 1: Formula One, Serie A and more
Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.
Euroleague renews for more in uncompetitive Spain
Europe’s top club basketball competition, the Euroleague, secured a small rights-fee increase in its new four-year rights deal with broadcasters in Spain.