Football

Football
Europe

The Italian football federation is confident that it can maintain or increase the value of its domestic television rights over the next four years despite its only realistic buyer – state broadcaster R…
Football
Europe

Sky, showing matches from all 20 teams, had an average match audience 8 per cent lower than Mediaset, which discriminated in its choice of match.
Football
United Kingdom

Manchester United now has less than four weeks to negotiate a new distribution network for its MUTV club channel.

Football
Albania

BSkyB picks up England games; League solves Eastern problems; Romanian dilemma for Ecclestone; Sportschau ratings hold, share slips
Football
Europe

First Saturday Champions League final fails to pull in families and is a ratings flop in two of Europe's big five markets.

Football
United Kingdom

Premier League chief Richard Scudamore speaks exclusively to TV Sports Markets on the league's rights-selling strategy.

Football
Asia

Football: Singapore telecoms companies Starhub and SingTel acquired the rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in non-exclusive deals worth about $17m (€13m), brokered by the Football Media Services agency.
Football
Brazil

Premier League and La Liga the next targets for expanding sports portfolio at Brazilian broadcaster.
Basketball
Europe

Romanian pay platform Boom is fighting to keep sports rights after its parent company entered administration.
Football
Denmark

Canal Plus lands deals for Euro 2012 tournament and qualifiers, Serie A and Eredivisie, among others, but Premier League loss leaves a big hole in offering.
Football
Europe

German commercial broadcaster pleased with audiences in first season of "too expensive" deal.

Football
Europe

MCS "hurt and angry" by Ligue rights refusal
Football

Grothe and Huber looking for investors to replace exiting shareholders, and drive continued growth in business.

Football
Europe

Competitive season draws bigger audiences for Premier League coverage on BSkyB and BBC, but ESPN's look to be stagnating already.

Football
Africa

Football: Hong Kong free-to-air broadcasters TVB and ATV agreed a deal with pay-television operator I-Cable for coverage of the opening match, the semi-finals and the final of the 2010 Fifa World Cup
Football

Two offers on table, but club may take sales in house
Football
Brazil

Globo 100-per-cent neutral in election ... Federation silent on Fasel report ... Lega fears irreparable damage
Football

Smaller feds behind centralisation plan have 8 to 12 months to convince big five that they will make money.