United Kingdom
Premier League off to a good start
Pay-per-view audiences for English football’s Premier League are up by 27 per cent for the opening matches of the season.
Setanta hangs on until Bundesliga price is slashed
Setanta last week renewed its deal for German football’s Bundesliga for a further three years.
How BSkyB outfoxed Setanta
BSkyB exploited the connections of its parent company, News Corp, to keep hold of the UK rights for American football’s National Football League.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Boxing, basketball, winter sports and more
Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Japanese and other football, golf and tennis
Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.
Poor viewing won’t help Euro athletics lift fees
Poor viewing for the European athletics championships in Gothenburg will not help the European Athletics Association get the fee increase it is trying to get.
La Liga is No.2 worldwide league – if only for now
International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.
Octagon in buy-out talks
The management of Octagon CSI is understood to be working on a buy-out of the division.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, basketball, golf and surfing
Football: Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP acquired the rights to the national team’s Euro 2008 home qualifiers and friendlies in a two-year deal, 2006-07 to 2007-08, with the Olivedesportos agency
Sportfive success in Italy may be hard act to follow
The Sportfive agency faces difficult talks in the remaining four big European markets where it has yet to sell the rights for football’s 2008 European Championship.
Why sports have to back broadband
The Champions League matches shown live on television will be shown simultaneously on broadband for the first time.
Brussels ready for listed-events battle with Fifa
Reports from Sportel Monaco 2007
Setanta wants £300m and this is what it will do
Potential investors in Setanta will have to take a gamble on what is a unique business model for a sports broadcaster.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Six Nations, Formula One, golf, basketball, cricket
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, ice-hockey, volleyball and more
Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.