Football

Antonio Giraudo, managing director of Serie A champions Juventus, this week called for radical changes to the structures of Italian football which he said had become “ungovernable”.  T

RTE and Setanta beat modest bid from TV3

Mega bid brings 19-per-cent rights fee increase

Pay TV operator paid more than it wanted to for Bundesliga - €148m - but also reached understanding with rightsholder Infront over World Cup

Competition lawyers were not surprised that the commission has taken a different approach to the two leagues, even though European competition commissioner Mario Monti has said that he wanted the commission’s d…

Bundesliga allowed two extra years to change way it sell rights, EPL forced to make changes from next season

Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A

EBU facing crucial decision from European Commission on exemption from competition law

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals

Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, said that Fifa may take the selling of television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in-house.

Rights award "bad for competition" among broadcasters and "bad for consumers"

German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final

No coverage for Spanish and Greek leagues three weeks into season, small fees in Italy

Ads during "natural" pauses in sports events fall foul of "Television Without Frontiers"

However CEO Van Westerloo will be reluctant to tinker too much with successful RTL4

New package would require collective selling, but would lead to at least two broadcaster showing matches