Football

American Football

Ice Hockey: The US National Hockey League signed a two-year deal with the NBC network, with an option to renew for a further two years
American Football

American Football:  The National Football League signed new deals with three of its five major US television partners – the CBS and Fox networks and digital satellite platform DirecTV

Football

UK broadcaster Channel 4 says that it is not taking a gamble in broadcasting French Ligue 1 football
Football

English football’s Premier League will be at the heart of the battle for subscribers to third-generation mobile telephony
Football

The Polish football association and the Polish league this week issued a tender for the league’s television rights
Football

Public pressure forced reluctant Swedish pay-channel Viasat Sport 1 to buy the rights in a last-minute deal for the national football team’s away friendly match
Football

The request for tenders for the French football league’s television rights looks very much geared towards Canal Plus winning all the key rights
Football

The EBU is likely to face strong competition for the rights from at least three big agencies: Sportfive, Team and Infront
Football

The European Broadcasting Union is aiming to put together a bid of
Basketball

Football/Basketball: JCS Sports, owner of Israel’s two Sport 5 cable and satellite channels, acquired the rights for top Israeli football and basketball matches in a three-year sublicensing deal with pay-per-view company Charlton

Football

Football: The Latin American broadcasting union, Organización de Telecomunicaciones Ibero-americanas, acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup in 15 countries, excluding Brazil, from the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Football

Media Partners and Silva has agreed worldwide deals for the clubs
Football

Six Premier League teams, including Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, increased their live-coverage television viewing

Basketball

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Boxing

April’s two Formula 1 races were the most featured events of the month in the TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European viewing.
Basketball

JCS Sports, which owns Israel’s two sports channels, has acquired the rights for top Israeli football and basketball matches

Football

Three of biggest clubs are threatening to undermine the tender process with demands for a bigger share of television rights fees.
Athletics

Rugby league’s Challenge Cup final, in which St Helens beat Wigan 32-16, drew 1.66 million viewers and a 25-per-cent audience share to BBC1.