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Golf

David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.

Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Equestrian

Great Britain is the only European country competing in the Samsung Nations Cup to show no interest in acquiring television coverage of the series.
Football

EC believes bigger EBU broadcasters do not need collective-buying power framework
Football

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.
Boxing

The BBC is seeking to strengthen its boxing portfolio by signing up one of the most highly-regarded young heavyweight prospects in the UK.
Football

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.
Baseball

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…
Football

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.

American Football

American Football’s Superbowl was broadcast live by four terrestrial channels in Europe.
Cricket

Is UK broadcaster Channel 4 losing interest in sport?
Football

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

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

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…
Football

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
Football

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

Football

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

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…