Football

Jacques Raynaud, vice-president of the Sky Sport channels at Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia, criticised clubs in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league, for failing to prevent…

CFoot, the digital-terrestrial television channel owned by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, will close down at the end of the 2011-12 football season in France, according…

The Team Marketing agency set a deadline of February 10 for a third round of bidding in the tender for the rights in France for the Uefa Europa League football tournament for the three years from 2012-13…

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America acquired exclusive rights for the Italian Serie A in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with the MP & Silva agency

The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, forecast that its annual international media rights income would increase by 50 per cent to over €70 million ($91.7

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera agreed a deal with the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, for the one remaining package of live domestic rights for the top-tier Ligue 1,…

The Italian football league, Lega A Serie A, has extended its bid deadline for four media rights packages by one week

FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession

Eurozone crisis not the only challenge facing sports rights agencies in 2012

Sport TV sees off new entrant once again as it picks up Europa League rights

Australian football federation outlines future rights strategy

Uefa enjoys big increases in Chinese Taipei and Indonesia

Cartel makes life hard for Sportfive in Vietnam

Uefa, European football’s governing body, said that its long-awaited tender for the centralised media rights for European qualifying matches for the Uefa Euro 2016 and Fifa 2018 World Cup tournaments w…

Pierre Fraidenraich was appointed as the new rights acquisitions director at the sports division of Canal Plus, the French pay-television broadcaster, according to l’Equipe.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in Cyprus for the Europa League for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with public-service broadcaster CYBC and pay-television broadcaster Cyta.

German public-service broadcaster ARD acquired rights for the friendly football match between German club Bayern Munich and the Dutch national team, scheduled for May 22