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Football: Portuguese state broadcaster RTP completed the sublicensing of 19 of the 31 matches in this year’s football European Championship to rival commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI (TV Sports Markets 7…
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Ice hockey: US broadcasters ABC and ESPN, which are seeking to renew a five-year deal with the National Hockey League, are said to have offered only about half the $120m (£66m/€94m) a year they now pa…
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Football rights to be used to transform cable entertainment channel into a sports channel
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Handball: Danish public-service broadcaster Danmarks Radio acquired the rights to both men’s and women’s Champions League competitions from the European Handball Federation in a five-year deal, from 2006-07 to 2010-11.

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The Euroleague has secured much-improved deals in two of its key territories
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Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable is unlikely to continue its financial backing of European basketball’s Euroleague
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Football/Basketball: JCS Sports, owner of Israel’s two Sport 5 cable and satellite channels, acquired the rights for top Israeli football and basketball matches in a three-year sublicensing deal with pay-per-view company Charlton

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Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

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JCS Sports, which owns Israel’s two sports channels, has acquired the rights for top Israeli football and basketball matches

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The rocky marriage of Italian club basketball and state broadcaster Rai is to end in divorce.
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Horseracing: Two rival dedicated cable and satellite horseracing channels could be launched in the UK within the next month with the country’s racecourses split evenly between the two new ventures. 
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Spanish pay-television company Sogecable has yet to decide whether to take up a three-year option to extend its financial backing for European basketball’s Euroleague.

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Basketball:  Spain’s top domestic league, the ACB Liga, failed to agree television deals in time for the start of its season for the second successive year.

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German pay-television broadcaster Premiere is set to acquire the live rights for the German basketball league
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Israeli pay-per-view company Charlton is set to sign deals with Israeli broadcasters
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Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
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Talks for rights for Spanish league founder with five weeks of season already gone
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The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF