Football

Football

The immediate effect of the merger of Telepiù and Stream is likely to be a re-run of last summer’s mutiny by small football clubs.
Football

England’s Premier League appears to be confident that it is on track to sell its television rights this summer.
Football

Major League Soccer has signed a second broadcast deal, the first for which is has not had to buy airtime.
Football

Juventus and AC Milan, last week won their legal battle to prevent mobile phone operator Tim showing near-live goals from their home matches on the company’s mobile-phone services.
Football

Team has been forced into a potentially damaging compromise deal with RTL over the German broadcaster’s treatment of the rest of this season’s tournament.
Football

Informal talks between broadcasters in Italy and Germany over the rights for the Uefa Champions League have raised the spectre of possible collusion over bids.
Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February
Athletics

The poor economic climate has led to a big increase in sports federations buying airtime to show their top events.
Football

DirecTV's bankruptcy throws into doubt the future of deal for 2006 World Cup.
Football

The G14 group of top European clubs is demanding that Uefa goes further than it has planned in changing the redistribution of television revenue.
Football

England’s Premier League officially rejected the EC's demands for a radical overhaul of its media-rights policy.
Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

Football

Fifa has decided against taking the sale of the television rights for the 2010 World Cup final in house.
Football

The collapse of Scandinavian sponsorship and rights agency Sponsor Service has put the future of a number of television-rights deals in doubt.

Football

The FA has made little progress in its bid to gain some measure of control over how the rights for England’s away games are sold into the UK market.
Football

Is the FA's appointment of Richard Dorfman and Mark Oliver a sign that the association recognises it is facing a much tougher round of negotiations?
Football

British Sky Broadcasting’s viewing figures for this year’s FA Cup are 37 per cent up on the same stage last year.