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MP Web expects to wait up to three years before seeing any significant return on its investment in Italian football’s third-generation mobile phone rights.

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Broadband sports provider Sportev is to a sign a global broadband deal for the World Rally Championship with International Sportsworld Communicators.
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Football clubs which have their own television channels are facing a major dilemma about what to do with increasingly attractive rights.
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The European Commission and the Premier League are both gearing up for a particularly tough battle over the selling of English league’s domestic television rights.
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The value of the Premier League’s television rights could be boosted as a result of the European Commission’s investigation into the league’s media-rights policy.

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Football: Spanish commercial broadcaster Cuatro and digital satellite operator Digital Plus, both owned by media group Sogecable, acquired the rights for Euro 2008 from Uefa, in a deal brokered by the…
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Industry asking: 'What does Canal Plus hope to achieve?'
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Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency.  It is the first deal done for the championship.  Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is also set to sign a deal for Euro 2008, paying €120m.

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The signs are not good for the Pro Ligue
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Dutch football’s top-tier league, the Eredivisie, is yet to get funding for its planned television channel
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Netherlands currently the only major European country where free-to-air highlights cost more than live rights

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Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency.  In Ghana, state broadcaster GTV acquired the rights for €1m (£686,000).

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Commercial broadcaster Telecom Italia buys rights to last-16 stage
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February 11-March 12: Team Marketing, Uefa’s Champions League sales agent, launched a tender on February 11 for the next three year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.
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A determined attack on the football rights market last month by Romanian news channel Realitatea has ended in spectacular failure
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The Brazilian government has found that the existing system of selling the television rights for the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, is anti-competitive
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Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).

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Spanish media group poised to take 100-per-cent control