Football
Where Norway’s football money goes
Norges Fotballforbund, the national football association, agreed a four-year deal for the live and highlights rights for all major football competitions in Norwegian football
How one country took a risk on Premier League
Telesport hopes that its acquisition of English Premier League football will be the key content it has been striving for since it first tried to launch four years ago.
Sportfive wins top Italian clubs, but must fight for rest
The Sportfive agency looks to be in a strong position to take the international rights of the rest of the Serie A clubs.
New bidder forced Sky Italia to raise fees for top clubs
Sky Italia’s expensive and quickly-negotiated deals with Italy’s top three football clubs were to at least a large extent the result of a rival bid from a newly-formed group of top sports executives and bankers.
Sky gives BBC sharp reminder of satellite risk
The Premier League and British Sky Broadcasting have given the BBC a sharp reminder of the risks inherent in its decision to transmit its programmes via satellite unencrypted.
We were naïve in our Sky dealings, says Brussels
The European Commission admitted that it was “naïve” in its attempt to break up BSkyB's monopoly over the Premier League’s television rights.
Premier League’s strong TV hit by too-quick Arsenal
The 66 Premier League matches broadcast by British Sky Broadcasting in the season just ended attracted an average audience of 1.356 million.
League’s fight to sell rights likely to end in courts
Ownership row continues after the publication of an independent report by the country’s national competition authority.
Uefa restrictions will hit regional bid fees by agencies
The flexibility which an agency would have in selling on Euro 2008 television rights will be limited
Rights packages
Uefa is asking for bids for two packages of rights
Latin America sews up Cup
The Infront agency has brought in $232 million (£126.6 million/ €182.4 million) from Latin America
Bidders resist Uefa demand to cherry-pick best countries
The European Broadcasting Union and top sports agencies will strongly resist Uefa’s plan to retain an option to remove individual countries from their pan-regional bids
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, athletics, skating
Football: Fifa, world football’s governing body, rejected a minimum offer of $2.8bn (£1.6bn/€2.3bn)
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Football dominates European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets survey for March.
Dutch league expects strong mobile-rights bids
The Eredivisie expects strong competition for its mobile-telephone rights, from Dutch and international operators.
Bundesliga set for big rise in foreign TV fees
The value of German football’s Bundesliga international rights is expected to increase by up to 40 per cent next season.
Mediaset to bid against Rai for away qualifiers
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is set to make another attempt to show the national football team’s matches for the first time.
Serie A’s big three increase TV fees
Sky Italia’s new deals with Italy’s top three clubs cover two seasons, 2005-06 and 2006-07.