Football

Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.

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.

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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). 

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

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