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English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

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Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business
Athletics

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

Football

A bid for the television rights of Primera Liga club Real Madrid by regional public-service broadcaster Telemadrid has been greeted with scepticism in Spain.

The battle between F1 legend Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso boosted television audiences in three of Europe’s top five markets this season.

Football

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 

Spanish public-service broadcaster sees nine-per-cent increase in audiences for MotoGP coverage

Football

Primera Liga rights-holding company Audiovisual Sport could face two legal challenges complaining about the way it handles the sale of the league’s television rights.

Basketball

Increased fees and coverage in Italy and Spain, but no renewal in UK, and fees and contract lengths fall in France and Germany
Cycling

Antena 3 to expand expand sports programming on DTT channel Neox, after acquisition of World Cup skiing rights
Football

Two courts reject separate requests for restraining measures to be imposed on Audiovisual Sport
Football

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

Hamilton, Raikkonen, Kubica, Alonso attract big audiences in home markets, but German, French and Italian audiences fall

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Football: Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal with the Sportfive agency.

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The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.

Football

Spanish Primera Liga football club Sevilla finally agreed a television rights deal this week, five weeks into the start of the season.

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Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.

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Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.