Football
Agency set to be squeezed out of Bundesliga rights deal
Deal with only realistic buyer Premiere could be done directly
New takeover threat to Man Utd
Irish businessmen JP McManus and John Magnier, through investment vehicle Cubic Expression, bought British Sky Broadcasting’s 9.9-per-cent stake in Premier League club Manchester United for £62m (€88.9m).
Al-Jazeera looks for more football
Broadcaster to launch sports channel in November
‘Never mind our success. Renewing deals is risky’
Despite cricket and snooker deals, Korean electronics supplier does not favour long-term sponsorship contracts
UK U-turn over sport getting special protection
Government denies change of position was in response to Premier League lobbying
French TV deal for Monday games angers clubs
Clubs fear falling attendances
England out of step over TV qualifying games
How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
Clubs set to sign TV deals six weeks into season
If deal agreed, rights fees will have fallen by 18 per cent since last year
Premier League suffers big fall in value of mobile-rights
Mobile content is not attracting customers to switch networks
BSkyB win will hit smaller sports
Sky will be able to fill schedules with extra top-class football
F1 blow for Dutch RTL
van Westerloo: RTL5 must acquire premium sports rights or consider moving in a different direction
Premier League row with EC could lead to TV black-out
League resisting pressue to re-tender live rights
SPORTEL TALK: Hard terrestrial
ESPN International has renewed a deal for the Latin American rights for football’s Champions League for three years, from 2003-04 to 2005-06.Â
SPORTEL TALK: Rights demands are more realistic, says Argentina
Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel
SPORTEL TALK: MUTV may be dropped for Milan
Three broadcasters – in Greece, Scandinavia and Japan – are said to be looking to end their rights deals for the Manchester United television channel, MUTV as a result of the departure of England captain Dav…
TV is our job, not yours, TV chiefs tell French league
Thiriez, LFP president, defends investigation into viability of league channel
Premier League lifts viewing by 120,000 a game
Television audiences for BSkyB live coverage of first 12 matches
Australia likely to de-list overseas cricket tours
Not enough free-to-air coverage could result in delisting pushed for by Foxtel