Football

Football

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.

Basketball

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.

Football

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.

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.

Football

The TWI agency is thought to be close to acquiring the club television rights of English Premier League clubs Arsenal and Liverpool.

Basketball

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,

Football

French sports minister Jean-François Lamour is to issue a decree allowing the French football league to sell its rights exclusively to one bidder.
Football

Football: The English Football Association agreed a deal with sports agency Sportfive for second-party rights for England’ home friendly internationals, giving Sportfive the rights for selling to broadcasters i…
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Football: German pay-televison broadcaster Premiere is set to sign a two-year deal, said to be worth €350m (£235m), with the Deutsche Fussball Liga for football’s Bundesliga.  Th
Football

The acquisition of the rights of the top three Italian football clubs by commercial broadcaster Mediaset has taken the country by surprise.
Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Football

Uefa decides not to centralise Uefa Cup commercial rights for at least two years
Football

Other agencies think incumbent agency's track record would be difficult to beat
Football

Indonesia's TV7 the only terrestrial broadcaster to win Premier League rights so far
Football

The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia
Football

Chief Executive Darmon bullish about the ambitions of new private equity owners
Football

Rights revenue increases 141 per cent on last round of Asian deals
Football

Rugby union:  Incumbent rights-holder IMG won the commercial rights for rugby union’s 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups.  It beat opposition from Champions League agency Team Marketing.  I