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Football

Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
Boxing

Horseracing:  UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m). 

Football

Football:  Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)

Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s La Liga in 2004-05 fell six per cent on the previous season.
Football

Spanish television’s near-black-out of the final of football’s domestic cup competition, the Copa del Rey, last weekend underlined a major flaw in Spanish listed-events legislation

Pay-television operators in four of the five top European television markets reported growing numbers of subscribers

Australian Rules Football

Ice hockey: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC retained the rights for live coverage of the US National Hockey League in a six-year deal that will keep its flagship Hockey Night in Canada programme…
Football

Football: UK commercial operator ITV and pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights for the FA Cup knock-out competition and England national team matches in a four-year, £425m (€623m) deal with the En…
Cricket

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.

Football

Football: Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Cuatro sublicensed the non-exclusive rights to at least seven matches from the upcoming World Cup from rival broadcaster La Sexta in a deal worth €20m (£14m).

German viewing also falls, Spain and Italy see audiences rise

Football

A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain
Athletics

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches of the 2014 World Cup from Fifa, football’s world governing body. 
Baseball

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Football

Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s Primera Liga in 2005-06 fell five per cent on the previous season.

Football

Mediapro is bidding aggressively for the television rights of Barcelona and other top Spanish football clubs.

Football

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.