United Kingdom
Harrison audience carries on falling
Audley Harrison’s 11th fight on the BBC attracted the heavyweight boxer’s second lowest audience.
Football ‘will never be the same’
The annual report on football finance from accountants Deloitte & Touche shows that English football generates more money than any other European League
Sky can still beat rivals
In breaking down its “bronze package” of 62 Saturday games into two packages of 31 games, the Premier League has increased slightly the chances of a terrestrial broadcaster winning some live rights. T
League splits packages
The Premier League made two changes to its initial packaging of rights. The first split the third package of 62 third-choice live Saturday games, played at either 1pm or 5.
New broadband rights may not satisfy Brussels
Broadband operators could complain to Commission on grounds that they cannot acquire exclusive content
Bundesliga may not be good model for UK, as EC claims
Commission formally approves Uefa changes to Champions League rights sales, praises DFL tender
BBC increases fee for must-have UK athletics
Fast Track secures four-year, £22m deal
ECB’s Sibley adds his old job of advising ECB
Relationship with Octagon CSI over
FA sponsor: This is the trade-off we prefer
Pepsi claim they are not getting the coverage they bought, say they will speak to FA
Why only UK raised its TV fees for Euro Cup
Limited competition and lack of a powerful, willing pay-TV operator leads to hefty falls in rights fees in big Euro markets
Why Sky let BBC take all England’s home matches
Tender document suggested FA was prepared to 'sacrifice its principles',
Irish FA asks state to repay Sky’s lost exclusivity cash
The Football Association of Ireland is demanding compensation of €2 million (£1.44 million) from the Irish government.
Berlusconi is double champion
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi won twice over in this year’s Champions League.
Brussels aims to let Sky win only half top TV games
The European Commission is demanding that England’s Premier League sells its main live rights in two packages with the same number of games and with matches of equal merit.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1:Olympics, football, squash and more
AOL Time Warner pulled out of the bidding for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games because, it said, it could not meet the International Olympic Committee’s tender requirements.
EC pushes for near-live showing of Premier games
Senior UK government officials are to lobby the European Commission to accept the Premier League’s collective selling of television rights.
Sport pushes for EU protection, but UK will kill plan
The governments of Germany and the UK are almost certain to scupper moves by the top sports federations to get EU support in several key areas.
Premier TV viewing on a high
Television audiences for English football’s Premier League and FA Cup both rose substantially this season,