Football

Football

Sceptical broadcasters would prefer to buy top rights independently rather than through an EBU operating with unfavourable conditions
Cricket

Cricket: Pan-Asian satellite channel Ten Sports agreed a sub-licensing deal with Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan for highlights of the forthcoming Indian tour of Pakistan
American Football

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 
Football

Public service broadcaster DR pushed out of the bidding by fierce competition between Modern Times Group and TV2
Football

Football Duo only managed to win match-by-match deals with tiny commercial broadcaster Magyar ATV
Football

Mobile operator turns to Media Partners subsidiary, MP Web, to sell rights outside Italy
Cricket

Football: French pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the exclusive live rights and a highlights package for the French football league in a three-year deal

Football

Russian football’s Premier League is asking for $15 million
Football

Greek football’s knock-out competition, the Greek Cup, is not getting any coverage on television this season

Boxing

Ukraine is to get its first dedicated television sports channel next spring
Football

John de Mol’s Talpa Capital is one of four individual broadcasters which will submit bids to Uefa next week for the rights to football’s 2008 European Championship

Football

A matching-rights option in the Belgian football league’s existing television rights contract is causing the league a major legal headache
Football

Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP is set to enter the bidding for the television rights for football’s 2006 World Cup to the surprise of television-business insiders
Football

The deal last week between the Infront agency and pay-operator Premiere for the 2006 World Cup rights bring the agency’s sales for the tournament in Germany to about €290 million

Football

French pay-broadcaster Canal Plus is considering launching a legal challenge to TF1’s controversial one-year extension of a deal for French football internationals.
Football

Most analysts believe that the loss of league rights will cost TPS up to about 130,000 of its
Football

Dutch football’s top domestic league, the Eredivisie, will decide next week whether to take a big gamble by awarding its free-television and pay rights to two new companies
Football

Commentators say Canal Plus’s €1.8 billion Ligue deal is not viable