Football

Athletics

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

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Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.

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The Belgian Football Association is threatening to sell the home matches of the national team on a match-by-match basis in Flanders.

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German broadcasters could be forced to pay much more for the Euro 2008 rights because of strong competition.

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Sportfive has postponed the selling of Euro 2008 pay-television rights in the Netherlands after the only bidder offered less than €500,000.

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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.

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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.

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The Premier League’s £171.6 million deal with the BBC takes the league’s audiovisual-rights income to more than £680 million.

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Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting is considering launching a Sky Sports channel on the digital-terrestrial service Freeview.

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Football: Fifa signed deals across Europe for the the World Cup in 2010 worth an overall €1bn (£666m).  In some territories it also signed deals for the 2014 World Cup.  T
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The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway
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Italian state broadcaster Rai won the live, free-to-air rights for football’s Champions League, taking them from commercial rival Mediaset
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Portuguese pay-television channel Sport TV acquired the rights for football’s 2006 World Cup
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Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi is being asked to pay at least twice as much to extend its present deal for the rights for the Asian Football Confederation
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The loss of World Cup rights is a major blow for the Infront agency
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FIFA surprised by what it thought was a cautious approach by bidding agencies.
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Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
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Surprise close to FIFA bidding process