Football

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.

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

MCS "hurt and angry" by Ligue rights refusal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expanding number of live matches offered to TV is now the most obvious way of driving domestic revenues.

Football: ESPN acquired mobile clip rights for the English Premier League in the UK in a three-year deal with the league worth about £15m, from 2010-11 to 2012-13.

New player Aruna Media will sell 3D rights for World Cup matches to cinema chains and public viewing arenas around the world.

The Premier League's domestic mobile and clip rights have dropped in value

News round-up, Volume 14, Issue 7

Football and porn channel Conto has scored another legal victory against the league. Also, Serie A is ready for a big fall in mobile rights income.

Uefa plans to centralise European Championship qualifying matches, threatening a major income stream for some top agencies.

Football: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired the rights for eight matches from this year’s Fifa World Cup in a deal with Prisa-owned pay-broadcaster Sogecable.

The Brazilian agency Traffic says it can wait until the end of the year to sell Latin American rights for the Copa América.