Turkey

Olympics: Turkish commercial network Fox Turkey acquired the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.

Fox Turkey, the News-owned general entertainment channel that last week won the rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics, hopes that the acquisition will help it fulfil its ambition of becoming Turkey’s most popular network.

The IOC’s preference for direct relationships in key markets looks set to further loosen the grip of the pan-regional broadcast unions that have traditionally acquired Olympic television rights.

The Deutsche Fussball Liga has generated about €30 million (£23.5 million) through last week’s sale of three territory-based packages of international Bundesliga rights.

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Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

Olympics: The International Olympic Committee confirmed its deal with the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella body representing Europe’s public-service broadcasters, for the media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games.

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Turkey’s top football league, the Super Lig, could get a significant increase in rights fees from its next domestic television rights deal which goes out to tender.

Turkish channel Cine 5 has ended its exclusive television-rights deal for Spanish football’s Primera Liga because the matches are being beamed into the country, unencrypted and free-of-charge, by the Al Jazeera

With only two weeks before the start of the English Premier League season, the rights are still to be sold in Turkey

Live coverage of Turkey’s top tier domestic football league, the Super Lig, will return to terrestrial television for the first time since 1994

Olympics: Italian pay-operator Sky Italia acquired the exclusive media rights for all platforms for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Olympic Games in a deal worth €112m ($168m), with the International O…

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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.