Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, tennis and more
Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Europe 2002
The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.
A tougher C4 says it’s not going to drop its big sports
Is UK broadcaster Channel 4 losing interest in sport?
Second-rate Cup wins 4th-round ratings success
BBC chairman Gavyn Davies is calling the FA Cup “a second-rate competition”.
Why highlights are ‘overpriced’
German commercial channel Sat.1 argues that the highlights rights for the Bundesliga are overpriced.
Bundesliga deals ‘safe’, even if new owner is unhappy
The Deutsche Fussball Liga, which runs Germany’s top football league, the Bundesliga, has rejected claims that its television deals are at risk.
TV bidding game: wild cards and maybe-bidders
The emergence of wild-card bidders for the Champions League television rights could kick start competition in Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Battles won and lost by agencies
The International Olympic Committee and the local organisers of the Sydney Games in 2000 tried to exclude television news agencies from the Olympic Park.
You don’t have to have lots of rights windows, says EC
The European Commission says that it is not pushing major rights-holders to split their core television rights into several packages.
Dutch pessimistic about winning anti-trust appeal
The Eredivisie admits that it has little chance of winning an outright victory in its appeal against an anti-trust ruling on its collective selling of television rights.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: DFB deals, Ligue 1, Football League, Serie A
Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the rights for German national team-matches and first-pick matches of the DFB Cup knockout competition in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to…
Bundesliga fishing for competition
The German football league’s attempts to shake up a market still dominated by pay-broadcaster Premiere for the next Bundesliga deal have been praised by independent observers.
Football League rides the global rights-fee wave
The English Football League this week confirmed the buoyant state of the worldwide sports rights market with a four-fold rise in international rights fees to £24 million
Realitatea’s league sponsorship deal leaves bad taste
Taste of victory soured by league title-sponsorship deal with rival broadcaster Realitatea.
BSkyB’s pick-battles with Setanta get growing audience
UK pay-operator BSkyB’s live television audiences for English football’s Premier League rose in 2007-08 after three years of decline
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Bundesliga, football and snooker
Football: German pay-television broadcaster Premiere acquired the rights for German football’s Bundesliga for the next two seasons paying €355m (£235 million) – €175m for 2004-05 and €180m for 2005-06…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Olympics and horseracing
Football: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…