United Kingdom

Football

British Telecom will look to acquire more sports-rights content after becoming the latest European telecoms company to enter the market.

Basketball

Basketball: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the rights to the 2009 and 2011 European Championships and the 2006 and 2010 World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball…
Football

Commission heavy-handed in comparison to approach in other European markets
Rugby Union

Dramatic tournament attracts best-ever audiences in four key markets

Freeview digital-terrestrial service close to overtaking pay operator BSkyB

Cricket

Broadcaster to help West Indies Cricket Board sell rights elsewhere
Athletics

EBU broadcasters believe that fee expectations of rights-holders are unrealistic
Baseball

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Football

Setanta, which acquired two of the Premier League’s six packages of live rights, was the major challenger for the most highly prized package of top matches.

Football

Mixed news for European domestic cup football audiences
Football

UK television audiences for English football’s FA Cup showed a healthy increase this season.

Football

Television audiences for BSkyB's coverage of English Premier League football dropped marginally in 2005-06.

Football

English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.
Cycling

Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from  the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …
Australian Rules Football

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315
Football

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

Incumbent agency IMG Media, Australian agency ISTV, and some new entrants are among the bidders
Cricket

Changes sought to make rights easier to sell on