Football
Leagues cash in on Africa’s fierce pay-TV battle
Competition between GTV and Supersport leads to big fee increases for African domestic football leagues
Telenor empire grows again with Danish gamble
Subsidiary DDtv acquires cash-strapped Danmarks Radio's content portfolio as part of Danish DTT strategy
Greece follows collective trend
Greek football’s Super League may collectively sell television rights from next season
Sportfive set to lose on Japanese Premier gamble
If continued for three years, one-year deals agreed so far with terrestrial broadcasters would leave agency with $4 million loss
Struggling Serie B fights new law and old president
Only Serie A clubs voted on the newly-imposed system, Serie B fear creation of a Serie A 'premier league'
Step-by-step rules keep tight rein on Serie A tender
Highly prescriptive legislation shows that "government does not trust the foootball authorities to do things properly and transparently"
Politics tangling with sport as government defends new law
Legislation requires collective selling of Italian football rights, possibly in breach of EU competition law
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, tennis, boxing, handball and volleyball
Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …
More court rulings but still no end in sight for Spanish war
Two courts reject separate requests for restraining measures to be imposed on Audiovisual Sport
Tender may break Modern Times’ Danish dominance
Top-tier league rights divided into three packages - bidders can acquire a maximum of two
Perfect timing for league as BSkyB, BBC team up again
English football league gets increased rights fees and more free-to-air coverage
Infront well-placed as Serie A heralds new collective era
Only one agency invited to make presentations to league on how it could increase value of rights
Total Sports hit again as Sportfive spree continues
Sportfive snatches Latin American continental club football competitions in a one-year deal
Major breakthrough for Pitch as it clinches familiar rights
Kentaro are the contracted party, but the agency set up by the former Octagon CSI sales team fronted the bid and will sell the rights
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Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.
Serie A has tough battle but it wins concessions
Clubs from Italy’s Serie A last week voted in favour of the principle of a return to the collective selling of television rights abandoned seven years ago.
Agencies face hard FA sales
International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent
How national leagues are increasing role and TV fees
Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.