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The Champions League matches shown live on television will be shown simultaneously on broadband for the first time.

EC confident it can defend its approval of UK listed events despite ECJ annulment

EBU-athletics tensions, Canal Plus basketball fees drop, IOC's Australian rights fee, ESS tears up deals in UK and Australia, Trans World Sport's future in balance

Potential investors in Setanta will have to take a gamble on what is a unique business model for a sports broadcaster.

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…

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.

Rugby World Cup viewing in Europe, Oceania, Argentina, South Africa

Vacant Chief Executive post and 'labour intensive' sponsorship sales put agency off

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

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

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

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

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed

Sport will be the single biggest driver for online video

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

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover