United Kingdom

Rugby Union

Big audiences followed the successful teams this year, with Grand Slam winners France landing the biggest domestic audience increase.

Football

The Premier League is using a bid for its online clips rights that Google planned several years ago to attack the internet giant in court.

American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
Cricket

IPL lands 90-per-cent penetration in UK with ITV4 deal

A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.

Athletics

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5
Football

Football: French commercial broadcaster TF1 sublicensed rights for the 2010 World Cup to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus in deals worth a combined €33m ($4…
Football

The French and Belgian leagues are latest to consider in-house channels in the face of weak demand for their rights from broadcasters.
Athletics

The Diamond League athletics series has secured double the rights fee income of its predecessor the Golden League, with two big deals yet to be done.

Football

Manchester United and Liverpool are increasingly unhappy that overseas television rights revenue continues to be split equally between Premier League clubs.
Athletics

News round-up.
Football

The Premier League's new channel for overseas rights-holders will be launched with one eye on the next domestic rights negotiations.
American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired free-to-air rights for Euro 2012 in a deal with Uefa worth €110m ($150m).
Boxing

Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.

Football

Skiing suffers cut as EBU fights off agencies [UPDATE: DEAL COMPLETED IN MAY 2010
Cricket

“We want eyeballs and that's what matters to us foremost. You can't get bigger and better than our strategy. People all over the world ask me where can we watch IPL - now I can always say - you can watch it on You Tube." - Lalit Modi.

ITV takes top four spots, but BBC increases its lead in the Top 100.