Football

Most powerful federations table a more modest centralisation proposal, and agencies try to undermine Uefa with long-term deals.

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Football: Greek pay-television broadcaster Nova agreed a new four-year deal with the top-tier domestic league, the Superleague, running from 2010-11 to 2013-14 and worth €176m ($238m).

Broadcasters, telcos and agencies are among the 16 companies that carry the Premier League’s overseas channel, or content service, which has received positive feedback after its first two months of operation.

The Austrian football federation has secured a slight increase in its latest three-year deal with public-service broadcaster ORF.

Sports rights agencies have begun to question the revenue estimates and projections put forward last month by Uefa in its proposal to centralise federation rights to European Championship and World Cup qualifiers.

This week saw the first submissions in the European Court of Justice case on the use of cheap foreign pay TV decoder cards by UK pubs to access Premier League coverage.

Football: The Sportfive agency was appointed by Uefa as its exclusive media rights sales agency for Euro 2012 in a number of markets in Asia and Oceania

Sales of Uefa Champions League and Europa League rights will kick off in October, in Latin America and the Middle East, followed by Italy.

The Dutch football league channel has added thousands of subscribers since August, but faces several tough challenges.

The English Premier League has lodged its appeal against the June US court ruling that YouTube was not infringing copyright by hosting videos of the league's matches.

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Uefa is promising federations a 67-per-cent increase in revenues from qualifier rights if they sign up to its centralisation plan.

The European Court of Justice will rule on the Premier League’s case against smartcard supplier QC Leisure on October 5, with potentially enormous implications for the way in which sports rights are sold in Europe.

Football: The MP & Silva agency extended its agreement with Arsenal Broadband Limited, the digital arm of English Premier League club Arsenal, for a further three years, covering the 2013-14 to 2015-16…

Football: Italian league body Lega Calcio agreed a number of rights deals covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons

Football: Pan-African broadcaster Supersport acquired the Nigerian rights for the English Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2010-11 to 2012-13, worth $110m (€85m).