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Football

Nova dilemma for league ... 3 missing from mobile Serie A ... Leeds happy with ppv pilot ... Rai's Euro goal fiasco
Football

Smaller federations are likely to support Uefa's plan to centralise sales of rights for European Championships and World Cup qualifiers, but bigger federations might resist it.
Football

Premier League to enhance website
Cricket

Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…
Cycling

German and Spanish audiences for the Tour de France increased by over 20 per cent this year, giving the Amaury Sport Organisation a shot in the arm, with negotiations for a new deal expected before 2011 Tour.

Boxing

RCS-RDS wraps up Premier League ... Battling HiTV wins Serie A ... Japan to reclaim Tour's No.1 status ... Crozier's role in ITV rugby win ... Universum seeking ZDF successor.
Cricket

Nimbus Communications believes launching its channel in new markets will be more lucrative than selling Indian cricket rights into those countries.
Rugby Union

Sky tempted by 2015 World Cup ... Neo turns down ESS for Sony ... Premier League drops Win TV.
Mixed Martial Arts

The Ultimate Fighting Championship drew its second-biggest pay-per-view audience ever last weekend.

Sources say Rupert Murdoch plans to unify Europe's News Corp-owned pay-television broadcasters.

Football

The BBC and ITV are refusing to meet Fifa's asking price for Euro 2012, but the broadcasters could be undermined by a European court ruling this autumn.
Athletics

EAA set for one-year EBU renewal ... Warren attacks BBC and ITV ... Premier League double in Denmark
Cycling

The Giro d'Italia's promoter is claiming its tough line on doping has contributed to increases in markets such as Germany, the UK and Belgium-Flanders.
Football

Europe's World Cup broadcasters are praising the production of World Cup footage, despite early reservations replays and slow-motions shots, and the blaring of vuvuzelas.
Football

A New York court has ruled in favour of Google-YouTube in its long-running copyright infringement case with Viacom and a host of sports rights-holders.
Baseball

Asian Games: Indian cable and satellite broadcaster Zee acquired the cable and satellite rights for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou in a deal with the Dentsu agency
Football

Football: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) acquired the rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in six countries - Uzbekistan, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Timor Leste, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – in a deal w…
Football

But Spain's Telecinco is expected to lose heavily on rights investment.