Football
Doing well should lift TV fees
World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro 2008, Danish, Irish and French football
Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa
Rai rapped for mini-spots again
Italian public-service broadcaster Rai was last month fined €230,000
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Golf, football, horseracing, basketball and more
Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.
Goal TV emerges as new challenger to dominant ESS
Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: European football, badminton, more tennis
Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…
Huge audiences but not as good as Euro 2004 in UK, Germany
The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.
Canal Plus in contract row over Swedish expansion
The expansion this season of Sweden’s top-flight football league, the Allsvenskan, from 14 to 16 clubs, has caused friction between the existing television-rights holders and the Kentaro agency
World Cup ratings close in on cricket
ESPN Star Sports is getting excellent ratings in India for its football World Cup coverage.
Serie A to follow Premier League’s recipe for success
The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, is planning radical changes to how Serie A matches are broadcast
Sportfive to make money back in difficult Japan
Several deals for English Premier League rights imminent
Clubs benefit after regulator breaks MTG’s monopoly
Danish football clubs will thank the country’s competition authority after its intervention led directly to the signing of new television rights deals
EC ignores sports lobby on collective selling of rights
Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Recovering Premiere surrenders Champions exclusivity
Sat.1 to show first-choice Wednesday matches, observers question incentive for fans to pay for more
Spain sale puts Sportfive in the black
€75 million (£56 million) Euro 2008 Spanish rights deal ensures agency makes profit
Russian agency sues league over TV rights deal
The row between the Russian Premier League and the Fedcom Media agency over the league’s television and marketing rights will end up in court.
Premiere scarred but back on top after short rivalry
Closure of Unity Media's Arena pay sports channel leaves Premiere the only obvious contender for Bundesliga rights
Who’s funding Mediapro’s €700m spree?
How small production company rose to become part of Spain's leading production and distribution company