Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: NBA, Euro 2008, French, Spanish, Italian football
Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16.
Pay competition brings in listed events
Olympics, international football, ice hockey, skiing and athletics protected
Is cable the answer to French league’s lack of bidders?
Noos-Numéricâble becomes first French cable operator to acquire, rather than just distribute, content
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World and European football, new media
Football: Pan-Middle East pay-operator Arab Radio and Television acquired the rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as part of an eight-year agreement with Fifa spanning all Fifa competitions from 2007 to 2014.
Germany and UK find life is cheaper without EBU
Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights
Three FAs may join forces to sell national matches
The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year
TV reality dawns on De Mol
Sale of Tien to RTL Nederland likely to end three-year boom in Dutch sports rights market
Swedish football having hard time getting top fees
Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled
Prisa loses faith in pay-TV but can’t find buyer for Sogecable
Pay-television business has failed to grow despite dominant position since merger with Via Digital
Premier League ppv viewing, match-by-match
British Sky Broadcasting’s pay-per-view Premier League football service
World Cup rights go to ART, despite good free-TV bid
Middle East pay-television broadcaster Arab Radio and Television has won the region’s rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups
Players: This isn’t TV as we know it
France’s Ligue 1 may delay its mobile-rights request for tenders because of a dispute with the players association
T-Mobile goes for live World Cup
German mobile phone company T-Mobile is understood to be in talks with the Infront agency
French rights-fee bubble set to burst with pay-TV merger
Merger talks between French pay-broadcasters Canal Plus and Télévision Par Satellite should be concluded before Christmas
Mobile Mediaset money-maker
Football fans in Italy will be able to watch live, top-quality coverage of Champions League and Serie A matches on their mobile phones
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: European rugby union, Nascar, football
Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the exclusive live rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a four-year deal from 2006-07 to 2009-10
Sogecable tightens grip with early deal for G-30 clubs
Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable strengthened its grip on the rights for Spanish domestic football
Premier League retains power to weight packages
Important questions remain about the constitution of the Premier League’s television-rights packages