Football
Why competition for Premier’s Irish rights was muted
RTE and Setanta beat modest bid from TV3
ERT loses rights for international team for first time
Mega bid brings 19-per-cent rights fee increase
Premiere wins World Cup link to Bundesliga deal
Pay TV operator paid more than it wanted to for Bundesliga - €148m - but also reached understanding with rightsholder Infront over World Cup
Why commission policy on TV-rights selling is ‘flawed’
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…
EC’s tough line on UK goes soft for Bundesliga
Bundesliga allowed two extra years to change way it sell rights, EPL forced to make changes from next season
Beckham quadruples La Liga rights fees in Asia
Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A
Has EBU done enough?
EBU facing crucial decision from European Commission on exemption from competition law
Premier League sets ball rolling for tough Asian battle
Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Fifa may sell World Cup TV itself
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.
Brussels takes tough line on league rights
Rights award "bad for competition" among broadcasters and "bad for consumers"
Record viewing for women’s cup
German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final
Top basketball leagues struggle for TV coverage
No coverage for Spanish and Greek leagues three weeks into season, small fees in Italy
Brussels tells Italy to drop mini-ads
Ads during "natural" pauses in sports events fall foul of "Television Without Frontiers"
Aggressive RTL switches channel
However CEO Van Westerloo will be reluctant to tinker too much with successful RTL4
Why regulator may like new plan
New package would require collective selling, but would lead to at least two broadcaster showing matches
Eredivisie may offer live rights to terrestrial TV
Clubs would risk undermining value of pay-television live rights package
ISPR’s football rights are a good fit for Sportfive
Infront did not like ISPR's rights guarantees and did not make use of its option to buy
Fast guide to Bundesliga TV deals
Kirch Media acquired the Bundesliga rights for four years, from 2000-01 to 2003-04, paying €383.5 million a season.