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Increased pay-TV revenues for Euro Qualifiers the key to Uefa's targets

Lagardère restructure plans prompt key staff departures...UFC targets Asian expansion...Mediapro moves on Portugal...ITV beats BBC-IMG

New viewing trends highlights the potential value of online rights especially in developing markets, report says

Football: The Sportfive agency, which markets the Euro 2012 media rights in Asia and Oceania for Uefa, European football’s governing body, signed a deal for the rights with Thailand media and entertainment g…

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed three-year deals, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, for the rights for the Uefa Champions League in the UK with commercial broadcaster ITV and pay-television b…

THe FEI believes its new rights deals will expand exposure and increase revenues over the next four years

Japan withdrawal could hit Traffic Copa revenues ... Sportfive Euro progress in Asia ... Infront narrows down bidders

UK Champions League rights fee falls in sign of the times

Archive: UK pay-television operator ESPN agreed an archive sports programming deal with public-service broadcaster the BBC. More than 80 hours of archive footage will be shown on the ESPN Classic channel

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body agreed deals in Germany and Austria for the Champions League, Europa League and Super Cup for the period 2012-13 to 2014-15.

The RFL has revamped the live TV rights packages on offer in its latest UK domestic rights tender.

Sportfive close to Euro 2012 deals in Asia ... HiTV hits out at ‘exploiters’ ... Pay-per-view ‘is killing’ boxing

League rights spotlight on Spain's La Liga

English Football Association secures fee increase in Middle East, but did it include England qualifiers previously thought to be centralised?

UK public service operator denies sports properties are for the chop as report underlines value of F1 and Wimbledon.

Handball: EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, signed media-rights deals with broadcasters in several territories

Badminton: The Badminton World Federation, badminton’s governing body, signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, with IMG Media for the global exploitation of all media rights for the BWF's major e…

Spanish free-to-air broadcasters follow Germans in bidding low for World Championships rights.