Spain

April’s two Formula 1 races were the most featured events of the month in the TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European viewing.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

Football dominates European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets survey for March.

Spanish pay-television company Sogecable has yet to decide whether to take up a three-year option to extend its financial backing for European basketball’s Euroleague.

Basketball:  Spain’s top domestic league, the ACB Liga, failed to agree television deals in time for the start of its season for the second successive year.

The Athens Olympics attracted impressive ratings for Europe’s public-service broadcasters

Sports agencies have had a busy fortnight negotiating deals for the opening round of 2006 World Cup

The America’s Cup, sailing’s premier event, is on course for a huge increase in television coverage

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets

Talks for rights for Spanish league founder with five weeks of season already gone

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is enjoying a flying start for its coverage of motorcycling’s MotoGP this season, with the rivalry between young Spanish riders Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa

The number of pay-per-view football buys in Spain fell 36 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2007

Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable is looking to exercise an option to extend its present deal with top La Liga football club Real Madrid

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. 

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to

The TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing in December shows Champions League second-phase matches topping the tables in six of 19 countries surveyed.