Football

Bid of over R$500 million per season bid a possibility as Record prepares to launch new sports channel

Parliament votes to drop legal imposition that rights must be sold platform-by-platform

New rights an enticement for Sports Channel subscribers to switch to Charlton

Football: Spanish pay-television broadcaster Sogecable acquired the pay-rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from the 2006-07 to 2008-09 with the Team agency

Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element

The French contenders for Champions League football asked to submit a second round of bids.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, is heading for a clash with Europe’s top clubs

A breakaway Italian super league, along the lines of England’s Premier League, will be in place next season

The Sportfive agency is to sue Russian commercial broadcaster 7TV over a string of allegedly unpaid rights fees

The high-value deals agreed by Italian state-broadcaster Rai for football’s World Cup and Champions League mark a major change in the sports-finance

Czech Television acquired the rights for the Gambrinus Liga, but it is threatening to pull out of the deal unless the football association tackles new corruption accusations.

The decision of Greek league champions Olympiacos to sell its television rights to public-service broadcaster ERT has led to a radical re-alignment of the rights for the country’s top football league.

Greek monopoly pay-operator NetMed Hellas is facing a challenge from the launch of digital-terrestrial and internet television.

Mobile-phone operators across Europe are pinning their hopes on the World Cup in Germany to give a badly-needed kick-start for the advanced third-generation content they have been marketing for so long.

Fox Turkey makes first major foray into sport

After complaints about World Cup 2006 broadcasts, Uefa want control over television product