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Sportfive wins 2014 and 2016 European Olympic rights
The deal is a straight buy-out, understood to be worth €250 million, although Sportfive will be obliged to ensure the broadest possible audience for coverage, including the IOC’s standard commitment in each country of at least 200 hours free-to-air coverage for the Summer Games and 100 hours for the Winter Games.
Setanta to lobby over Premier League rights
Balderton’s Barry Maloney told the Daily Telegraph that “A football match that ends 5-1 does not suggest two evenly matched, equally competitive teams. The Premier League auction process has failed to introduce the fair competition that the European Commission intended.