Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Cricket, football, rugby union and snooker
Cricket: The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.
Brussels probes Murdoch deals with Serie A clubs
League gambles in changing free-pay balance
Abramovich to Russian TV’s rescue
Fifa: We don’t rule out EBU
Fierce bidding for non-Euro rights
Uefa will find TV bidders only too ready to shout bias
Ruling on Serie A ‘burden’ boosts superleague move
Gioco Calcio wins lifeline, as Sky hits subscriber trouble
How Bundesliga will avoid paying Infront €50m
FA takes tough guarantee line
How English and German leagues got different deals
Israeli TV finally agrees Cup deal
French clubs set to sell deferred rights for home games
De Mol shakes up TV football
Big falls for BBC and live Sky viewing of Premier League
Television viewing of live coverage of English football’s Premier League has fallen heavily this season.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Cricket, football, swimming and rugby union
Cricket: Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms made a $308m (£174m/ €257m) bid for the worldwide television rights to Indian cricket for four years, from October 2004 to September 2008.
Israel’s Charlton gets ppv approval
The Israeli Cable Council, a government agency, gave approval this week for pay-per-view company Charlton to televise Israeli football’s Premier League and the English Premier League