Basketball
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Rugby, ice sports and more
Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…
Smaller Greek clubs win late deals
State broadcaster offers to buy TV rights, government funding and sponsorship will bring income to last year's level
Sogecable takes over funding of Euro-basketball
Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute
Top basketball leagues struggle for TV coverage
No coverage for Spanish and Greek leagues three weeks into season, small fees in Italy
In-house move ‘gives more control’
Agencies reluctant to agree deals with broadcasters insisting on paying smaller rights fees or tech costs only
UPC to start sports channel
Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Spanish clubs struggle to agree new TV deal
Spanish basketball’s ACB Liga is facing a financial crisis as it struggles to agree a new television contract for next season.
Euroleague wins lifeline and help
European basketball’s Euroleague has been thrown a lifeline by Spain’s fourth-largest bank.
Sports channel, by Al-Jazeera
Channel to be broadcast free via satellite throughout Middle East
RTP set to sell stake in pay-TV sports channel
Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Angry league attacks Rai ‘excuses’
Lega Basket, said that it was “very disappointed” that state broadcaster Rai had dropped its planned coverage of two key games from the climax to the domestic season.
Basketball ligue opts for more cash but fewer viewers
The French basketball league, Ligue Nationale de Basketball, has negotiated a much improved television rights fee for coverage of the domestic championship.
US club channels win favour, but cable deals are key
Basketball’s Houston Rockets and baseball’s Houston Astros are the latest US major league sports teams to launch their own regional sports channel.
Federations may relish Euroleague’s trouble, but there’s no
Europe will be watching very closely to see whether basketball’s breakaway Euroleague can survive its present financial crisis.
Basketball sues Telefónica for £43m in fees and damages
The true extent of the financial crisis facing European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague became clear last week.
‘Crucial’ time for Euroleague
European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague is facing a severe financial crisis that could threaten its future.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Euro and African football, tennis, cricket, basketball and golf
Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Russia’s private sports channel fights for survival
7TV, one of Russia’s two big terrestrial sports channels and the only major channel still privately-owned, is undergoing a major restructuring to survive.