Football

The Champions League matches shown live on television will be shown simultaneously on broadband for the first time.

German pay-television operator Premiere is set to lose further ground with the loss of more sports rights contracts to Arena.

La Liga matches to be offered on DTT next season

World Wrestling Entertainment takes its Asian television rights sales in-house

EC confident it can defend its approval of UK listed events despite ECJ annulment

ProSiebenSat.1 believes pay-broadcaster doesn't fit with its free-TV business

National team home matches sold to incumbent broadcaster, TV2, in four-year deal

African football revenue sharing, Digitürk spoiler, legal challenge to funding of Brazil's Record, CSI drops cricket commission rate

Nordic alliances, Royal League dead, bid for Israel's Sports Channel, Record Canadian Audiences for English Premier League

Kirch's Bundesliga deal, Forstmann's 3-year anniversary at IMG, La Liga fee cut, German skiing fiasco

African deal paves the way for IMG contract extension

Only two agencies have been invited to meet the league, despite "nearly everybody in the business" expressing an interest

Spanish agency Mediapro has made a flying start in its international rights sales for Spanish league football.

Move by SBS to break away from the traditional cartel of free-to-air broadcasters marks the beginning of a new era in the sports rights market.

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

Uefa Cup's declining popularity puts off mainstream broadcasters, Conto TV steps in with rights purchase

Commercial broadcaster pays €2 million per season for Euroleague rights