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The English Premier League looks set to boost the sale of its international rights in Asia.

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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).

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Commission heavy-handed in comparison to approach in other European markets
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Uefa, European football’s governing body, plans to expand the central selling of the television rights and sponsorship of the Uefa Cup
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North American deals now total €27 million
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Some larger clubs in favour of breaking with traditional broadcast partner, despite threat of legal action
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Korean broadcaster which went it alone seeks to recoup rights costs
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Malaysian agency M-League Marketing is understood to have agreed a deal worth about $13 million (£6.7 million/€9.8 million) for English Premier League football’s mobile and internet clips package.  Th
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Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock
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Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock
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Government intervention to force free-to-air coverage
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EPL remind video-sharing site that it is unhappy about continual copyright breaches
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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.

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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.

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Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League

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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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Football: Caribbean sports cable channel SportsMax acquired the free-to-air and pay-television rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014 in a deal worth $18m (£9.3m/€13.7m). 
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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.