Football
Canada buys all Serie A rights
FA split over cable challenge for TV rights
SBS woos snubbed partners
Malaysia pays record new-media fee
Canal Plus holds out over price
Sportfive struggles to recoup fees
Putin’s football politics is perilous for pay-TV
Why Premier League invited YouTube to bid for rights
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Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.
Primera Liga TV audiences fall 5%
Free-to-air television audiences for live coverage of Spanish football’s Primera Liga in 2005-06 fell five per cent on the previous season.
TVN starts sports channel on back of Champions win
Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League
Setanta strategy pushed up price
Setanta, which acquired two of the Premier League’s six packages of live rights, was the major challenger for the most highly prized package of top matches.
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Rai, Mediaset and Sky count cost if Juve is relegated
Rai, Mediaset and Sky will be the big losers if Serie A champions Juventus are relegated to Serie B next season as a result of the match-fixing scandal.
UK, Italian viewers up for the Cup, but not Germans
Sportfive exodus set to continue
TF1 sells World Cup rights in bid to undermine M6
TF1 appears to have done its best to undermine the coverage of most of the remaining games by the rival M6 channel.
Bigger audiences remind ITV what it’s missing
UK television audiences for English football’s FA Cup showed a healthy increase this season.