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Promoter Robert Waterman said this week that he is close to a deal with the BBC to televise promotions of fighters.

Frank Warren’s Sports Network and pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting have begun talks on a new television-rights contract.

England’s Premier League appears to be confident that it is on track to sell its television rights this summer.

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…

The conflicting needs of the host-broadcasters of athletic events and the in-stadium event presenters was one of the central issues at a European Athletic Association seminar.

England’s Premier League officially rejected the EC's demands for a radical overhaul of its media-rights policy.

The value of the Australian Cricket Board’s television rights in the UK looks set to fall by 36 per cent.

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

The cancellation of the first round of the British Rally Championship has raised questions about the viability of the series.

The FA has made little progress in its bid to gain some measure of control over how the rights for England’s away games are sold into the UK market.

British Sky Broadcasting’s viewing figures for this year’s FA Cup are 37 per cent up on the same stage last year.

The Football Association is considering making many more FA Cup games available for pay-television in its next round of rights deals.

Audiences for the first round of the Formula 1 World Championship plummeted in three of the top four European markets.

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.

A later kick off helped the BBC achieve its highest rugby union Six Nations audience since 1997.

British Eurosport attracted an average audience of 42,000 for the live coverage of its first six matches from Italian football’s Serie A.

The launch of British Sky Broadcasting’s broadband internet site showing same-day highlights of World Cup Cricket has provided a major boost for the UK broadband market.