Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, Formula 1, horseracing and more
Football: Sports agency Sportfive acquired the worldwide international television rights for the German Bundesliga in a two-year deal, from 2004-05 to 2005-06, paying over €15m (£10m) per season.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, cricket, hockey and boxing
Football: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for a package of seven or eight Sunday matches from the 2006 World Cup from agency Infront Sports & Media.
New Irish sports channel will need good Gaelic feel
Can Ireland support a dedicated sports channel?
Dentsu ‘rejects’ free Asian deals
Football’s ongoing European Championships may be attracting huge television audiences across Europe but in some of the poorer Asian markets it is not being shown at all.
Media Partners near to 8-club deal
Media Partners and the family of Riccardo Silva are close to acquiring the international TV rights for eight of Italian football’s 20 Serie A clubs.
France takes big cut as TWI wins
TWI is understood to have paid only $2 million a year for the international rights of the French Ligue 1.
German league wins 40% increase from Sportfive
The German football league increased the value of its international television rights by 40 per cent in selling the rights for the next two years to the Sportfive agency.
Commercial TV gets revenge with World Cup win
The joint acquisition of 2006 World Cup rights in Flemish-speaking Belgium by the region’s two main commercial broadcasters is part of a wider battle against VRT
ESS fights to get its cash back
ESPN Star Sports is in the middle of tough negotiations with cable operators as it seeks to refund its huge outlay for English football’s Premier League.
Mediaset’s early DTT launch could hit Sky hard
A Mediaset plan to launch its digital-terrestrial pay-per-view football service next month, nine months ahead of schedule, could be a serious blow to pay-television platform Sky Italia
TF1 rights deal for national team may be scrapped
French commercial broadcaster TF1 and the French Football Federation could be forced to scrap a controversial one-year extension to their deal for the rights for French football internationals.
Turkish football set to gain from TV rights battle
Turkey’s top football league, the Super Lig, could get a significant increase in rights fees from its next domestic television rights deal which goes out to tender.
EBU rules: Athens and Euro 2004
EBU broadcasters in each country must give non-EBU broadcasters the possibility of buying live rights each day of the Athens Olympics.
World Cup tender split into three
Fifa’s division of the television rights for the 2010 World Cup into three packages was welcomed by industry analysts
EBU in Dentsu tie-up, but is its bid big enough?
The European Broadcasting Union has teamed up with Japanese agency Dentsu to submit a bid for the world-wide television rights for football’s 2008 European Championship
TV income faces tax threat
A landmark investigation by the Swedish tax authority into whether television-rights income should be subject to tax could have major financial implications
EBU rules for selling on rights are not working
Commercial broadcasters have questioned the effectiveness of the rights sublicensing scheme drawn up to placate the European Commission by the EBU.
Infront tension over need for rights
The Infront agency will need to re-invent itself, according to sports marketing executives.