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Uefa’s decision to centralise the television rights of the Europa League, has been more than justified by major increases in revenue and exposure.

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Football: Italian digital-terrestrial pay-broadcaster Dahlia acquired a package of live Serie A rights covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons in a two-year deal worth €63m ($90m), brokered by the Infront S…
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Speculation is mounting that Singapore’s two rival pay-broadcasters may bid jointly for the English Premier League rights when they come on the market.
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Fifa believes that the lessons learned from the limited mobile coverage of the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany have left it well-placed to exploit the technology at next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa.
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Football: Indonesian pay-broadcaster Telkomvision acquired a package of Serie A rights for the 2009-10 season in a one-year deal with the MP&Silva agency, renewing an existing deal
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Lega Calcio, is up almost €1.6 billion ($2.3 billion) after the first hand in a game of high-stakes poker with the Italian antitrust authority.
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The IAAF has returned to the European Broadcasting Union in its attempts to find a buyer for the European media rights for its events for the next four-year period.
Australian Rules Football

Germany’s Bundesliga and martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship are among only a handful of sports rights properties to have avoided major rights-fee cuts in the UK following Setanta’s collapse.

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Premier League faces another potentially wearying battle with competition regulators over the rules governing its next domestic media rights auction.
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Football: Italian satellite broadcaster Sky Italia acquired the live satellite rights for all Serie A matches from 2010-11 to 2011-12 in a deal with Lega Calcio. Sky will pay €580m ($824m) a season.
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The Infront agency looks close to achieving a result which defies market logic: increasing the Lega Calcio’s rights fees without generating any direct competition between media operators.

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ART and Showtime are already lobbying to carry the Abu Dhabi Media Company’s Premier League coverage after the group shocked its rivals by acquiring the rights to English football’s top-tier league two weeks ago.

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Pitch and Kentaro last week won the rights to distribute English Premier League club channel Liverpool FC TV, despite higher offers from rival agencies.
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The Lega Calcio, said that the return to the collective selling of Serie A’s media rights had laid the basis for a “cultural revolution” in Italian football.
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Multichoice’s booming subscriber growth is being offset by increased costs, including a massive 1,000-per-cent inflation in the average price of football rights.
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A reincarnation of sports broadcaster Setanta looks to have secured at least its short-term future in Ireland.
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The pay-television ambitions of Orange appear to have suffered a major blow after the country’s competition authority advised that its present distribution strategy could not be justified.
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Football: UK pay-broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN acquired the rights for the Scottish Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, with the league having an option to extend the deal for a…