Football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, World Cup, Euro 2008 and others
Football: Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Cuatro sublicensed the non-exclusive rights to at least seven matches from the upcoming World Cup from rival broadcaster La Sexta in a deal worth €20m (£14m).
Ice-hockey, rugby and handball pull in the viewers
Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.
Bonnier link finally gets TV4 its sports channel
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 has acquired a 51-per-cent stake in cable and satellite channel SportExpressen.f
How ITV and Setanta joined forces for final bid
League deal with no tender set to be scrapped
Modern Times throws down league gauntlet
Uefa will gain from end of Italian collusion
Will Team win other patronage?
Richard Worth, chief executive of Team argues that the shareholding could have potential benefits
Why Uefa stake in favourite Team was best option
How the big five leagues handle TV production
Why doesn’t league trust us?
Canal Plus could sue if league takes TV production in-house
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup, Euro, Copa and other football
Swisscom ties up league and looks for more top sport
Swisscom began an aggressive move into the country’s sports-rights market this week with the acquisition of the rights for domestic league football.
Premier League rights help BT protect itself
British Telecom will look to acquire more sports-rights content after becoming the latest European telecoms company to enter the market.
Record fee for Irish rights but was battle real?
The English Premier League’s £82 million (€119 million) deal for live rights in Ireland is a record sports-rights deal for the country.
League ends row over ‘selling same TV rights twice’
The German football league this week ended its acrimonious dispute with Deutsche Telekom over the telecom company’s plan to use its Bundesliga internet rights to reach cable and satellite television sets.
End central selling, says Italy
Italy’s government is seizing upon the match-fixing scandal which has engulfed Serie A to push through new measures on television rights for football.