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Sky will be able to fill schedules with extra top-class football
Football

League resisting pressue to re-tender live rights

The UK government ordered a “root and branch” review of the BBC’s role and financing ahead of the expiry of its royal charter in 2006.

Tony Ball, the highly successful chief executive of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting, is leaving the company after four years in charge.  Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns a 35.
Football

Television audiences for BSkyB live coverage of first 12 matches
Football

Clubs want a joint venture between themselves and Uefa to run the commercial side of club competitions
Football

BSkyB, ITV, Telewest also bid
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UK ice hockey "a mess"
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If commission finds BSkyB rivals did not bid because packages were too large, it could tell league to re-tender rights

UK pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting said that it expected to hit its year-end target of seven million subscribers “within weeks” after reporting a pre-tax profit for the first time sin…
Football

Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv
Football

So was the bidding process for the Premier League’s live rights anti-competitive, as the European Commission believes it might have been?  Several competition lawyers believe that there is a strong ar…
Boxing

Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs. 
Football

Newly signed deals in Spain and Germany confirm that the Uefa Champions League is heading for a major drop in television rights fees in four of Europe’s five major markets.
Football

The Premier League’s planned tender of its television rights is good news for British Sky Broadcasting.
Boxing

The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…
Football

Champions League television viewing rose by eight per cent across Europe’s top six football television markets this season.

Football

BSkyB could win all the live rights in the packages proposed by the European Commission and by the Premier League.