Turkey

Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories

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…

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

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.

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.

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m

Rights fees in Turkey for the new, enlarged Uefa Cup package came close to matching those for the top-tier Champions League

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m).