Football

The Premier League has sold its media rights in China in what is thought to be the country’s biggest ever sports-rights deal.

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will have to adapt to a very different world after the latest round of bidding for English football’s Premier League rights.

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10

The value of the television rights for the German Bundesliga is being questioned.

A joint-bid from Canal Plus and Telenor comfortably won the Premier League rights in the Nordic region after much less competition than was expected.

PCCW looks to have delivered a killer blow in the battle to dominate the local pay-television market by snatching the Premier League rights from rival I-Cable TV.

Pay-television operator Showtime is talking to rival broadcasters in the Middle East, Al Jazeera Sport and ART, after outbidding them for Premier League rights.

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

Both big clubs and small clubs hope that centralisation will help re-establish status of Uefa Cup

Future of sport on New Zealand public service television in doubt after TVNZ loses Olympics to Sky Television and Prime

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

A bid for the television rights of Primera Liga club Real Madrid by regional public-service broadcaster Telemadrid has been greeted with scepticism in Spain.

The IMG agency is to submit a global bid for the English Premier League’s international rights

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed a deal for Euro 2008 rights with Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF.

The Nordic free-to-air television landscape is set for another shift in ownership power with the exit of Norwegian media group Schibsted.