Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Formula 1, golf and more
Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, racing and more
Football: Gioco Calcio, the fledgling pay-per-view football service launched this season by six small clubs from Italy’s Serie A, is likely to lose one or two of its clubs to pay-operator Sky Italia, a…
Sharing Premier League ‘doesn’t work’ in Holland
Sharing has led to RTL losing heavily on the rights and has not helped Canal Plus win many subscribers
How Premier League will sell internationally
Live rights
International live rights (including the right to show full delayed games) have been split into two packages.
Package A: 306 to 314 games
Premier League strategy is good but risky model
Fifa and Uefa likely to adopt the model
ITV may bring back boxing
Boxing one of a range of sports ITV is looking at “to replace” the Premier League
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, tennis and more
Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Infront sues Kirch over Bundesliga
Infront alleges that agency formed by Kirchmedia creditors to handle the Bundesliga rights was insolvent at the time it was sold
Nordic Canal Plus regains football, renews ice hockey
Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
NOS wins no-option World Cup
Failure by Holland to qualify could cost NOS €8m
Why 3G rights ownership will be a hot debate
Clubs argue that 3G rights are not covered by law giving federation control of media rights
German screens blacked out for Spanish Liga
MediaPro pulls plug on DSF halfway through first match
Spanish league gets off to a healthy TV start
First 11 matches get 4.17m average audience
RTVE still in search of deal for Liga
Broadcaster cannot agree fee with regional broadcasting organisation
Collapse of UPC-Canal Plus deal is bad for both sides
UPC will have to delay plans to launch sports channel in Netherlands
Rejected agency sues league
Rejected agency sues Primera Liga and Sogecable
Italian clubs’ TV channel in last-ditch bid to stay alive
Clubs need €10 m immediately to pay their players
Juventus: End charity for Serie B
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