Football

Football

Portuguese commercial channel TVI acquired the domestic free-to-air television rights for the country’s top football league
Football

Unprecedented demand from broadcasters worldwide to cover the Greek national team’s matches
Football

Immense government and public pressure for the team’s other away matches to be covered.
Football

Sports agencies have had a busy fortnight negotiating deals for the opening round of 2006 World Cup
Football

Three, is at last beginning to generate value from its 3G sports rights
Football

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is to ask the European Commission to reconsider the conditions under which it allowed the creation of pay-television operator Sky Italia
Cricket

Cricket: Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan agreed a deal for the terrestrial rights for select matches from International Cricket Council tournaments up until 2007, including 19 matches from the 2007 World Cup and nine from the Champions Trophy this year and in 2006

Football

Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.

Football

The expected clash over the future of European club football between the G14 group of top European clubs and Uefa is unlikely to materialise
Football

UPC, the pan-European cable company, is to launch a second sports channel in Hungary
Football

Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 10 acquired the rights for one Israeli Premier League football match per week in a sublicensing deal with Israeli pay-per-view company and rights agency Charlton TV.

Football

Belgium’s top-tier domestic football league, the Pro Ligue, has started what are likely to be complex talks with potential bidders
Football

Television rights fees for Greece’s top-tier domestic football league will fall this coming season by about 15 per cent
Football

Polish commercial broadcaster TVN was this week close to acquiring the highlights rights for the Polish football league
Football

Portugal’s top football league, the Super Liga, is without a domestic free-to-air television deal only two weeks before the start of the season
Football

Telecom Italia has taken the country by surprise in challenging for the digital-terrestrial rights for Serie A football.

Cricket

Cricket: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports is set to acquire the worldwide rights to international cricket in Sri Lanka in a four-year deal, from 2005 to 2008.

Athletics

Football: Turkish state broadcaster TRT signed a four-year sublicensing deal with digital-satellite operator Digitürk for live, delayed and highlights rights for the Super Lig.