Football
Premier League set to better last overseas TV rights coup
The English Premier League looks set to boost the sale of its international rights in Asia.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Cricket and Field Hockey deals
Football: Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia acquired the pay-television rights to all 64 matches of the 2006 World Cup, 39 of which it will show exclusively, in a deal with the Infront agency. Sky is paying an estimated €40m (£27.3m) for the rights. The deal also includes the rights to this year’s Fifa Confederations Cup, the Fifa World Youth Championships and the 16 26-minute preview programmes produced by Infront (page 1).
EC is being far ‘more radical’ over Premier League
Uefa Cup to centralise TV selling next year
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
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, basketball, motor sport and others
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football in the Americas, Europe; rugby union
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.