United Kingdom
BSkyB is having a good Cup year
British Sky Broadcasting’s viewing figures for this year’s FA Cup are 37 per cent up on the same stage last year.
FA looks for ways to keep up value of TV rights
The Football Association is considering making many more FA Cup games available for pay-television in its next round of rights deals.
Revamped F1 gets mixed reception
Audiences for the first round of the Formula 1 World Championship plummeted in three of the top four European markets.
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Rugby shows why late kick-offs are key to BBC
A later kick off helped the BBC achieve its highest rugby union Six Nations audience since 1997.
Few viewers rush to see Eurosport save Serie A
British Eurosport attracted an average audience of 42,000 for the live coverage of its first six matches from Italian football’s Serie A.
Big boost for internet sport but should TV be running it?
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, squash, cycling and more
Audiovisual Sport, the football rights-holding company for Spain’s two main pay-television companies, said it valued the rights of all 20 clubs in the Primera Liga at €200m a season, 25 per cent less tha…
Forget cricket, Ciclitira banks all on Asian golf
David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.
Masters expands world coverage
Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
British snub for new super league
Great Britain is the only European country competing in the Samsung Nations Cup to show no interest in acquiring television coverage of the series.
EBU broadcasters may be hit hard in battle with Brussels
EC believes bigger EBU broadcasters do not need collective-buying power framework
League under club pressure to do the impossible
Richard Scudamore is caught in a quandary about how and when to go out to tender for the next round of the league’s television rights.
BBC buys heavyweight balance
The BBC is seeking to strengthen its boxing portfolio by signing up one of the most highly-regarded young heavyweight prospects in the UK.
EC hits league with boss’s quotes
The EC has used the views of Richard Scudamore to undermine the league’s arguments in favour of retaining the central selling of its TV rights.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, tennis and more
Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Europe 2002
The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.