Spain

Football

Football: The threatened delay to the start of the Serie B season in Italy was averted when Rupert Murdoch’s satellite platform, Sky Italia, signed a last-minute, one-season deal to broadcast all Serie B matches live.

Tennis

The emergence of Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal is responsible for a fierce three-way battle for the Spanish rights for tennis’s Masters series.

Basketball

La Sexta’s gamble in acquiring the rights for basketball’s 2006 World Championship proved inspired after the Spanish national team beat Greece in the final.

Basketball

Football: Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP acquired the rights to the national team’s Euro 2008 home qualifiers and friendlies in a two-year deal, 2006-07 to 2007-08, with the Olivedesportos agency

Football

The Sportfive agency faces difficult talks in the remaining four big European markets where it has yet to sell the rights for football’s 2008 European Championship.

Football

La Liga matches to be offered on DTT next season
Football

Kirch's Bundesliga deal, Forstmann's 3-year anniversary at IMG, La Liga fee cut, German skiing fiasco
Football

Spanish agency Mediapro has made a flying start in its international rights sales for Spanish league football.

Football

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 
American Football

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

Cycling

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

Football

World Cup coverage helped Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable to add new subscribers in the second-quarter of the year.

Football

Court orders return to last season's system for televising La Liga - one match on La Sexta, one match on Canal Plus, remaining matches on PPV
Football

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed
Boxing

Ice Skating: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for the World and European Championships and other events in a four-year deal with the International Skating Union, the sport's world governing…
Football

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Football

Sogecable suing Mediapro for €200 million for “pirating” the signal to four matches
Football

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights