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Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in Europe for the last month’s World Athletics Championships in Moscow T

Petrucci intervention helps Fiba close late late Rai deal

As Brazil delivers increased audiences for the Fifa Confederations Cup in Europe’s big five markets, Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, runs the numbers T

Lisicki timing is good for IMG in German Wimbledon TV rights talks

Germany’s RTL snatches national team qualifier matches from under the nose of ARD/ZDF

Ufa Sports faces a hard battle to hold on to World Championship handball rights

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences for the recent Alpine World Ski Championships in key European markets

Ben Speight, head of SportBusiness Intelligence, analyses how last month’s handball World Championship proved a big draw in Spain, Germany and Denmark T

RTL sold on the rights for one of this year’s World Cup ski-jumping events after a row with the FIS

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.

Football: The German Football League awarded the rights for the Bundesliga in several three-year deals covering 2006-07 to 2008-09.