Football
G-30 clubs open talks with Sogecable
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 cricket lose in South Africa’s first list
Rugby and football associations expect listing to hit finances, cricket board welcomes chance to get good price for rights
Brussels likely to tell France to cut protected events
List comprises 21 sports events considered to be of “major importance to society”
BSkyB sticks with ppv, after high bid for 3rd package
Chief Exec says at least half of 62 third- and fourth-choice package matches will be on ppv
Finding for or against Premier League is not clear-cut issue
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…
UPC to start sports channel
Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Saban’s Sat.1 will go for sport and revitalise dead market
Competition in German market has been curtailed by depressed television market and colluding broadcasters
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, rugby league, cricket and more
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.
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
ARD set for league deal after Sat.1 takes Euro cup
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.
German, Spanish TV deals confirm the worst for Uefa
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.
Good for Sky, but too good?
The Premier League’s planned tender of its television rights is good news for British Sky Broadcasting.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, boxing and more
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…
TV Sports Markets analysis of Champions League viewing in Europe
Champions League television viewing rose by eight per cent across Europe’s top six football television markets this season.
French clubs in TV-cash truce, but fears of split stay
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.
Irish TV may win own package of Premier rights
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.
Will Sky be able to buy everything?
BSkyB could win all the live rights in the packages proposed by the European Commission and by the Premier League.
Dutch clubs forced to sell their own TV rights
The Eredivisie has lost its appeal against a ruling by the national anti-trust authority banning the collective sale of rights by the league.