Spain

Football

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi won twice over in this year’s Champions League.
Football

Sogecable says Phedrasport deal is a negotiating tactic
Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Football

The Italian league appears to be ploughing a surprisingly lonely furrow in setting up its own channel.

Commercial broadcasters in several European countries are planning an onslaught on many of the top sports rights.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Boxing

Satellite pay-television operator BSkyB renewed four important golf deals: (1) exclusive live rights for two Ryder Cups (in 2006 and 2008) with European Tour Productions; (2) live rights for 34 events…
Football

Spanish sports rights-owners may be apprehensive about the effect of the merger between the country’s two pay-television operators.

The green light for pay-television mergers in Italy and Spain redraws the map of European television.

Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…

The Malaysian Formula 1 grand prix was shown nationally on Spanish terrestrial television last weekend.
Basketball

The true extent of the financial crisis facing European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague became clear last week.
Equestrian

The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.
Basketball

European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague is facing a severe financial crisis that could threaten its future.

Football

Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
American Football

Audiovisual Sport, the football rights-holding company for Spain’s two main pay-television companies, said it valued the rights of all 20 clubs in the Primera Liga at €200m a season, 25 per cent less tha…
Baseball

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…