Football

The Italian match-fixing scandal is continuing to sow confusion in the television-rights market.

Turkish commercial broadcaster ATV continued its spending spree on top football.

The Sportfive agency faces difficult talks in the remaining four big European markets where it has yet to sell the rights for football’s 2008 European Championship.

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.