Football

Football

Scandinavia’s three main commercial broadcasters have broken away from a wider free-to-air consortium to bid as a separate group for football’s Euro 2008 rights

Basketball

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

Football

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 
Australian Rules Football

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.

Football

Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m
Football

Primera Liga rights-holding company Audiovisual Sport could face two legal challenges complaining about the way it handles the sale of the league’s television rights.

Football

Competition between GTV and Supersport leads to big fee increases for African domestic football leagues

Athletics

Subsidiary DDtv acquires cash-strapped Danmarks Radio's content portfolio as part of Danish DTT strategy
Football

Greek football’s Super League may collectively sell television rights from next season

Football

If continued for three years, one-year deals agreed so far with terrestrial broadcasters would leave agency with $4 million loss
Football

Only Serie A clubs voted on the newly-imposed system, Serie B fear creation of a Serie A 'premier league'
Football

Highly prescriptive legislation shows that "government does not trust the foootball authorities to do things properly and transparently"
Football

Legislation requires collective selling of Italian football rights, possibly in breach of EU competition law
Boxing

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) - …
Football

Two courts reject separate requests for restraining measures to be imposed on Audiovisual Sport
Football

Top-tier league rights divided into three packages - bidders can acquire a maximum of two
Football

English football league gets increased rights fees and more free-to-air coverage
Football

Only one agency invited to make presentations to league on how it could increase value of rights