Football

The G-30 consortium of smaller Spanish football clubs reopened talks with other potential bidders for their domestic television rights after ending a period of exclusive negotiations with agency Phedra…

Rugby and football associations expect listing to hit finances, cricket board welcomes chance to get good price for rights

List comprises 21 sports events considered to be of “major importance to society”

Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv

So was the bidding process for the Premier League’s live rights anti-competitive, as the European Commission believes it might have been?  Several competition lawyers believe that there is a strong ar…

Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal

Competition in German market has been curtailed by depressed television market and colluding broadcasters

Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs. 

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.

German commercial channel Sat.1’s winning bid for the live rights to football’s Champions League over the next three seasons opens the way for ARD.

Newly signed deals in Spain and Germany confirm that the Uefa Champions League is heading for a major drop in television rights fees in four of Europe’s five major markets.

The Premier League’s planned tender of its television rights is good news for British Sky Broadcasting.

The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…

Champions League television viewing rose by eight per cent across Europe’s top six football television markets this season.

The French football league’s new system for distributing television rights income is a temporary truce that is unlikely to stop the top clubs from pushing to sell their television rights individually.

England’s Premier League is likely to be forced to sell its television rights for the Republic of Ireland as part of the international rights package rather than as part of the main UK package.

BSkyB could win all the live rights in the packages proposed by the European Commission and by the Premier League.

The Eredivisie has lost its appeal against a ruling by the national anti-trust authority banning the collective sale of rights by the league.