United Kingdom

Football

Too late for EC to take action over concerns about a BSkyB monopoly?

The UK government agreed to an amendment to the media-ownership clauses of its communications bill after intense, year-long pressure from Lord Puttnam, the former film-maker
Football

England’s Football Association was set to announce the renewal of a three-year television rights deal with the BBC and pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting as TV Sports Markets went to press. 
Cricket

Ten Sports beats competition from ESSS and Sony to sign four-year deal

Boxing

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Football

Latest tender has no specific ppv package, and no 'near-live' mobile clips
Rugby League

The UK’s Rugby Football League is prepared to sell at least some live coverage of the Super League to terrestrial television.

Football

BBC have held talks with TWI, ESPN, Setanta
Football

With British Sky Broadcasting expected to walk away with all the live television rights for the next three-year contract – bids have to be submitted by next Friday, July 11 – there are three key questions: 1. Ho
Tennis

Death of IMG's Mark McCormack unlikely to damage TWI-Wimbledon relationship
Football

The Italian league appears to be ploughing a surprisingly lonely furrow in setting up its own channel.

Football

The FA's hopes of profitably integrating broadcast and sponsorship rights is likely to be scuppered by the downturn in the rights market.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Boxing

Satellite pay-television operator BSkyB renewed four important golf deals: (1) exclusive live rights for two Ryder Cups (in 2006 and 2008) with European Tour Productions; (2) live rights for 34 events…
Rugby Union

The BBC increased its viewing figures for rugby union’s Six Nations championship this year by 770,000.
Football

Real Madrid’s classy 3-1 defeat of Manchester United in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final attracted an average audience of 8.89 million UK viewers.
Boxing

The BBC says that it is still a long way from signing a new broadcasting deal with British heavyweight boxer Audley Harrison.
Boxing

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