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Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Cycling

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Football

Sogecable pays more for Serie A rights after MP & Silva drop plan to work with Mediapro
Football

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final

Baseball

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Football

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is having to work hard to retain the television rights for motorcycling’s MotoGP world championship.

Cycling

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Football

Battle lines are being drawn up in Spain over the television rights for domestic football’s Primera Liga.

Football

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets

Basketball

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Football

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Cycling

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
Football

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Football

€75 million (£56 million) Euro 2008 Spanish rights deal ensures agency makes profit

Football

How small production company rose to become part of Spain's leading production and distribution company