Football
Russia set to buy Premier rights
The Premier League has sold its television rights for Russia to a new sports agency with connections to Ynon Kreiz, head of the European arm of Haim Saban’s media empire.
Russia’s private sports channel fights for survival
7TV, one of Russia’s two big terrestrial sports channels and the only major channel still privately-owned, is undergoing a major restructuring to survive.
Euro finalists take the money
The progress of host-nation Portugal and rank outsiders Greece to the final of football’s Euro 2004 provided much needed financial boosts to the two countries’ struggling public-service broadcasters.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, football, cricket
Olympics: The European Broad-casting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters, acquired the rights to the Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Summer Games in 2012.
New deals will give TWI rights of top four clubs
The TWI agency is thought to be close to acquiring the club television rights of English Premier League clubs Arsenal and Liverpool.
Premier League wins big rise
A series of legal battles and other bitter disputes between the top players in television sport in Israel is creating uncertainty and confusion for Israeli television,