Football
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.
State tries to halt commercial TV’s shift to pay-TV
Rights-holders and commercial broadcasters united in opposition
Fans return to BBC highlights
Television audiences for BSkyB's coverage of English Premier League football dropped marginally in 2005-06.
Why Premiere put Champions in bigger window
Mexico holds out against rising tide of Copa TV fees
TV Azteca and Televisa have unofficially agreed not to compete for football
Bundesliga has hard job ending TV rights crisis
German football’s Bundesliga is facing an unprecedented row over the sale of its television rights.
Globosat’s pay-TV football monopoly suffers court blow
Premier League on a roll again with new media
Mediapro’s Barça bid may not threaten crashing Sogecable
Mediapro is bidding aggressively for the television rights of Barcelona and other top Spanish football clubs.
CCTV pays well for women’s cup
IOC and Fifa set China testing time over rights fees
Fifa confusion in Caribbean
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, rugby union, motorsport and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Cricket, motorsport, football and tennis
Cricket: Indian channel Zee Sports acquired the worldwide television, radio and broadband rights to 25 one-day internationals featuring India to be played at neutral venues around the world in the next five years.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Spanish World Cup deal and others
Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.