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Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences in the major European markets and America for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the R&A, which operates the Open championship, has described reports that UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB could acquire exclusive media rights for the British golf event as “massively premature.”

The World Cup rights deals signed by Fifa in the UK and Germany just before the current tournament kicked off confirmed the difficulties the governing body has had in securing decent fee increases in both markets and in Europe generally.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has amended an exclusive rights deal for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to allow other news organisations in the UK to access coverage of the multi-sport event.

Sky, BT and the BBC all posted positive viewing figures for the 2013-14 English Premier League season. For live coverage, pay-television broadcaster BSkyB recorded its second-best season ever, while telecommunications company BT posted figures well in excess of those achieved by previous Premier League broadcasters ESPN and Setanta ...

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