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UK pay-operator Setanta looks to hit ambitious subscriber targets.

Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)

The launch of Spanish agency Mediapro’s new football channel, GolTV, has come at a particularly bad time for Prisa.

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). 

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.

Acquiring the 2010 football World Cup rights was crucial for Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable

Spanish rights agency Mediapro will launch its new football channel, Canal de Fútbol, later this month but will have to do so without any domestic La Liga football.

The early signs are not good for the European Broadcasting Union

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope

Proposals include limiting contracts to three years, and dropping requirements for free-to-air coverage and clubs' permission for television matches.

Tour wins new EBU deal but UCI must try harder

Football: German commercial broadcaster RTL sublicensed a package of nine 2010 Fifa World Cup matches from pay-television operator Premiere, with an option to purchase a further nine matches.

Spanish media group Sogecable has suffered two major blows in quick succession.

Roger Federer is not the only one tiring of his French Open tennis finals with Spanish star Rafael Nadal

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 

Madrid court ruling to resolve the conflict be over top-tier domestic football television rights is almost certain to be postponed