Football
Double Dutch disappointment for Sportfive
Sportfive has postponed the selling of Euro 2008 pay-television rights in the Netherlands after the only bidder offered less than €500,000.
Last orders for Premiere as Arena scoops bar rights
German pay-television company Premiere got its last orders from the Bundesliga when it failed to win the league’s rights for public-place viewing.
Sportfive set for big cash in French Euro rights battle
Strong competition for the Euro 2008 rights in France should lead to a steep increase in rights fees because of the rivalry among the country’s terrestrial broadcasters.
Premier League on track for £2.5bn
The Premier League’s £171.6 million deal with the BBC takes the league’s audiovisual-rights income to more than £680 million.
Sky Sports may follow Setanta in joining Freeview
Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting is considering launching a Sky Sports channel on the digital-terrestrial service Freeview.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup
Women attract year’s top football TV audiences
Rai finally takes Champions League rights off Mediaset
World Cup rights once again go to pay-TV channel
Japanese TV told to double fee
Infront: Losing the rights won’t lead to job cuts
Fifa did not expect agencies to be so “cautious”
Fifa signing direct deals with top five plus Scandinavia
How Fifa gave so much to TV and nothing to top agencies
Surprise close to FIFA bidding process
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Horse racing, boxing, tennis and more
Horseracing: UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football
Football: Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)