United Kingdom

Athletics

The European Athletics Championships will need to get good ratings if the European Athletics Association is to get an increase in television rights fees.

Football

Cable-operator NTL is understood to have beaten off strong competition from BSkyB to win Premier League internet clip rights.

Football

Surprise decision not to bid aggressively for 'perfect fit' rights
Rugby Union

Commercial broadcaster competition forcing BBC and France Télévisions to pay increased fees for Rugby World Cup
Football

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed

Sport will be the single biggest driver for online video
Football

Football: France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel agreed new deals for top-tier Ligue 1.

Boxing

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover
Football

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

American Football

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…
Football

Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).
Football

Setanta attracts average of 373,000 for first five live Premier League matches

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Cycling

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Football

Champions League, Football League and Heineken Cup rights-holders should be confident of strong rights-fee increases next time round

Rugby Union

Advertisers keen on rugby as it attracts affluent males

Football

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final