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BBC chairman Gavyn Davies is calling the FA Cup “a second-rate competition”.

The International Olympic Committee and the local organisers of the Sydney Games in 2000 tried to exclude television news agencies from the Olympic Park.

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…

The English Football League this week confirmed the buoyant state of the worldwide sports rights market with a four-fold rise in international rights fees to £24 million

UK pay-operator BSkyB’s live television audiences for English football’s Premier League rose in 2007-08 after three years of decline

Football:  German pay-television broadcaster Premiere acquired the rights for German football’s Bundesliga for the next two seasons paying €355m (£235 million) – €175m for 2004-05 and €180m for 2005-06…

Football:  The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…

Late kick-offs work, at least for broadcasters of the Six Nations tournament in France and the UK.  And they would like more of them.

Football’s European Championship in Portugal dominated sports viewing across Europe in June.

UK boxing website Seconds Out is to launch a pay-per-view internet boxing service at the end of this month.

The decision to turn the European touring car championship into a world series has been welcomed by motorsport observers.

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.

Olympics: The European Broad-casting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters, acquired the rights to the Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Summer Games in 2012.

The UK round of showjumping’s Samsung Super League will have no coverage on the country's terrestrial television.

Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting is to take a much tougher line in its coverage of boxing.

Football: The English Football Association agreed a deal with sports agency Sportfive for second-party rights for England’ home friendly internationals, giving Sportfive the rights for selling to broadcasters i…