United Kingdom
First free-to-air Premier League match for UK
English Premier League football will be broadcast live on free-to-air television in the UK for the first time next month as part of a promotion by pay-television broadcaster ESPN, which is making its channels…
Fox network shows first live Premier League game
Fox became the first US free-to-air network to show an English Premier League game live yesterday, January 22, with the Arsenal v Manchester United match
ITV’s Rogers joins Pitch
The Pitch International agency appointed Jonathan Rogers, currently commercial director of ITV Channels, a division of UK commercial broadcaster ITV, as its new managing director
Lack of free-to-air interest concerns ECB’s Collier
David Collier, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said he was worried that a lack of interest among UK free-to-air broadcasters in the board’s domestic rights in the next cycle c…
FA suffers big cut in ITV deal
The English Football Association has taken a cut of over 40 per cent in its fee for domestic free-to-air rights for the FA Cup, England matches and the Community Shield in the deal announced this week…
Virgin seals F1 channel carriage deal with Sky
UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB agreed to make its new Formula One pay-television channel, Sky Sports F1, available to cable-television operator Virgin Media from its launch in March
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Horse racing, ice hockey, MMA, Olympics, skiing and more
Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: Euro 2012, Champions League, Ligue 1 and more
Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
North One in race against the clock to save WRC rights
North One in race against the clock to hold on to rally rights
Indian rights boom hits ceiling as saturation reached
Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
EBU well placed to tighten its grip on Fifa World Cup rights
Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: American football, athletics, hockey, handball and more
American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football: Champions League, Serie A, Bundesliga and more
Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Fastrack: Issue 15:22
Wanted: French home for acquisitive Al Jazeera... Eredivisie Live battling for content... SPL plays safe with Sky and ESPN... Conmebol confirms Full Play deal
FA expects modest growth in depressed Europe
France could be the key to FA hopes of European boost
Soccer finally ‘coming of age’ in US, experts say
Football comes of age in US
Six Nations deal sheds light on BBC cuts strategy
BBC strategy comes into focus with Six Nations renewal