Football
SBS buys sport in battle with passing Sporza
Belgian commercial channel VT4, owned by SBS Broadcasting, is setting up a sports department
TWI drives Asian football channels
Yes Television, the Hong-Kong based broadband and television service provider, is to launch two 24-hour football channels in Asia
Leagues go for more control of TV production
The French football league is expected to decide in the next few weeks to take over the production of at least some of its matches
Italian football ‘urgently needs radical overhaul’
Italy’s football federation and football league are taking seriously detailed proposals for a major overhaul of professional football
No TV rush to buy Premier League
With only two weeks before the start of the English Premier League season, the rights are still to be sold in Turkey
‘Wrong-footed’ Sky Italia fights to retain dominance
Giovanni Bruno, head of sport at Rupert Murdoch’s Italian pay-television platform Sky Italia, said this week that the company would fight to defend its dominance of the country’s pay-television market
Was Turkish winner fooled?
Live coverage of Turkey’s top tier domestic football league, the Super Lig, will return to terrestrial television for the first time since 1994
Fifa may sell World Cup TV itself
Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, said that Fifa may take the selling of television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in-house.
Brussels takes tough line on league rights
Commission wants to ensure that collective selling will not result foreclosure of competition by a single buyer
Record viewing for women’s cup
Swedish TV4 gets best-ever viewing figure for Women's football World Cup final
Why new channel could be viable – and good for sport
Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
Brussels tells Italy to drop mini-ads
'Television Without Frontiers' directive does not permit advert while football match halves are underway
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Japan Olympic deal, Uefa football and more
Olympics: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial broadcasters Fuji TV, NTV, TV Asahi, TBS and Tokyo TV, acquired the media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics…
Big clubs rebel against Globo’s new bundled deal
Brazil’s four biggest football clubs have refused to ratify a new television rights deal
IPL gets flying start but can it keep up the rate?
Can television audiences for cricket’s new India Premier League Twenty20 competition be sustained?
Final defeat for Realitatea sport plan?
Romanian broadcaster Pro TV’s successful acquisition of Uefa Cup rights was also the third major defeat in a month for rival commercial channel Realitatea
Agency football future under fire
Further questions were prompted this week about the future role of agencies in football