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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).

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Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

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Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 has acquired a 51-per-cent stake in cable and satellite channel SportExpressen.f

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Broadcasters adjusting bidding tactics to beat BBC and BSkyB
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Danish regulators act to prevent anti-competitive movements in the television sports market
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Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group has thrown down the gauntlet in Norway
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Uefa expects to enjoy a significant increase in the value of the next round of Champions League rights in Italy
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Richard Worth, chief executive of Team argues that the shareholding could have potential benefits

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Uefa breaks new ground in agency-federation relationships.
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A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain
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Eurosport upset that production of matches was taken out of deal
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Relationship between broadcaster and LFP hits new low, as league considers splitting production contract from television rights
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Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches of the 2014 World Cup from Fifa, football’s world governing body. 
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Swisscom began an aggressive move into the country’s sports-rights market this week with the acquisition of the rights for domestic league football.

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British Telecom will look to acquire more sports-rights content after becoming the latest European telecoms company to enter the market.

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The English Premier League’s £82 million (€119 million) deal for live rights in Ireland is a record sports-rights deal for the country.

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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.

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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.