Football
Bank gives little comfort for Kirch
Banker’s letter of comfort produced last week by Leo Kirch in support of his deal for German football’s Bundesliga rights
Honours even as Canal Plus, Orange share Ligue 1 spoils
New rights deals agreed late this week by the Ligue de Football Professionnel for French football’s top-tier Ligue 1
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Premier League, Serie A football, Formula One
Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).
Old-timer BSkyB puts pressure on newcomer Setanta
Setanta attracts average of 373,000 for first five live Premier League matches
FA tender to ignite ‘platform wars’ and double fees
Platform-specific packages aimed at pitting broadcasters against mobile and internet operators for new media rights
Financial war breaks out over La Liga rights
Sogecable suing Mediapro for €200 million for “pirating” the signal to four matches
Serie A the latest victim of colluding Japanese market
Top value Serie A rights sold in one-year deals - total rights fee looks set to fall
Showtime eyes Premier profits
Middle-East pay-broadcaster on course to break-even after adding 35,000 new subscribers in a month
Channels to bid for top rights in fight for survival
New deals for top-tier domestic football and Formula One to play important role in shaping future of the market
Ad growth drives new media
English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: More football, handball, basketball and ice hockey
Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, Fifa, Italian, Brazilian, English football
Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Spanish rivalry continues to fuel rights-fee boom
Sogecable pays more for Serie A rights after MP & Silva drop plan to work with Mediapro
Serie A agency sues Arena over broken promise
MP & Silva suing over collapsed negotiations for €7 million three-year deal, makes complaint to German anti-trust authority
Report: Rugby and football set for rights fee growth
Champions League, Football League and Heineken Cup rights-holders should be confident of strong rights-fee increases next time round
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Cricket, ice-skating, basketball, tennis and more
Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: African, German, English and Scottish football
Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World, European and domestic football
Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.