Football

Football

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m
Football

Champions League, Football League, Rugby League and Rugby World Cup properties on the market in next few weeks

Football

Rights fees in Turkey for the new, enlarged Uefa Cup package came close to matching those for the top-tier Champions League
Football

The intense competition for the Albanian federation rights shows that it will not be easy for RTL to force its way back
Football

Football: Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal with the Sportfive agency.

Cricket

BBC’s cricket bid hangs on Sky and Champions League T
Football

The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.

Football

The Sportfive agency is facing a dilemma in its Euro 2008 television rights negotiations in Austria.

Football

Pan-European media giant RTL is to make a surprise return to the sports rights marketing business
Basketball

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m). 
Football

Bids for the international rights for England’s Football League are due in on March 26
Football

Negotiations for the international rights for French football’s top tier Ligue 1 may be complicated by the finalising of the domestic rights contract
Football

Major League Soccer will bring in rights fees of about $18.5 million a year from next season, an indication of television’s growing faith in the sport.

Football

The election of a new president of Mexico’s football association will move forward the implementation of a four-year plan to professionalise the game.

Football

Spanish Primera Liga football club Sevilla finally agreed a television rights deal this week, five weeks into the start of the season.

Football

German cable operator Kabel Deutschland says that it is no longer interested in acquiring content rights.

Football

Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.

Football

·   Football: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC acquired the rights for all Fifa events for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.