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Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
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Sky set to become Italy’s biggest broadcaster.
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Televisa’s long-term partnership with the Mexican giant is all but over.
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English football’s Premier League has blocked its Greek licensee Nova from showing its Saturday 3pm matches.
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Eurosport has given the Deutsch Fussball Liga an excellent start to its international rights sales for Germany’s top-tier Bundesliga.
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Top sports rights-holders Uefa and Formula One Management have achieved good rights-fee increases in Scandinavia.

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Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

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The rights-exchange deal between Italian state broadcaster Rai and satellite operator Sky Italia covering the football World Cups of 2010 and 2014 and the Olympic Games of 2010 and 2012 is under threat.

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The Italian football league suffered a drop of more than 50 per cent in the value of its free-to-air highlights rights after failing to generate competition between broadcasters.

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Pan-regional broadcaster ESPN Star Sports increased rights fees five-fold to retain its hold on Formula One rights in Asia.

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UK pay-operator Setanta looks to hit ambitious subscriber targets.

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Basketball: Greek pay-operator NetMed acquired the rights for A1 league club PAOK in a three-year deal from 2008-09 to 2010-11
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Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)
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Sky Italia, agreed a deal under which Rai will sub-license to Sky rights to football’s World Cup finals of 2010 and 2014 and Sky will sublicense to Rai rights for the Olympic Games of 2010 and 2012.
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The Deutsche Fussball Liga cancelled the €3 billion (£2.4 billion), six-year deal it had agreed for its media rights with Leo Kirch’s Sirius group.
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Canal Plus Events will generate about €18.5 million (£14.5 million) from the sale of international rights for Ligue 1.

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The launch of Spanish agency Mediapro’s new football channel, GolTV, has come at a particularly bad time for Prisa.
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Romanian commercial broadcaster Antena is resisting pressure to sublicense two weekly matches to a rival channel.