United Kingdom

Rugby Union

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.
Athletics

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

Boxing

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

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

Cricket

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.

Equestrian

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

Boxing

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

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…
Football

Football: German pay-televison broadcaster Premiere is set to sign a two-year deal, said to be worth €350m (£235m), with the Deutsche Fussball Liga for football’s Bundesliga.  Th

New season also features two extra teams and a more secure television deal

Snooker

After opening three rounds, viewing up 30 per cent on last year
Football

Rugby union:  Incumbent rights-holder IMG won the commercial rights for rugby union’s 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups.  It beat opposition from Champions League agency Team Marketing.  I
Baseball

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India
Cricket

Football: Five Italian Serie A clubs sold the rights for their remaining home games of the season to pay-operator Sky Italia in deals worth between €300,000 (£201,000) and €350,000 a match.  Th
Boxing

Negotiations with Audley Harrison, and Mick Hennessy being dragged out by disputes over promoters, number of fights
Football

But failure of Gioco Calcio, with latest Serie A defections to Sky Italia, calls into question how serious an alternative league channels are

Bid could be critical for IOC chance's of improving value of rights