Football
Grade ponders FA rights bid as marker for new ITV era
Repackaged FA Cup and England matches could attract ITV bid, leading to increased competition, rights fees
French pay-TV in rights battle with Telecom Italia
Competition for the live rights for Italy’s Serie A football
Medisaset hopes rights threat is badly targeted
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset could face a tough battle holding on to its lengthy media-rights deals with Italy’s top football clubs
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, ice-hockey, golf and Olympic sports
Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf and more
Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Hardball Team tells bidders to put in new offers
Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.
Canal Plus pays more for less of Polish football
Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus has won the live rights for the Polish football league
League gives in over ownership to speed up TV sale
Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights
Court probes federation, clubs, TV and agencies
Initial investigations into French football television-rights deals find various irregularities
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World Cup and national team football, Formula 1
Football: The Dentsu agency acquired the rights in Japan to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in a deal with world football’s governing body.
Israeli agency gives up top league contract
Israeli pay-per-view company and agency Charlton is to end its television-rights deal for the Israeli Premier League a year early
Saran shows it is still the big power in club TV rights
Saran International, the Turkish rights agency, renewed its deal with Galatasaray
Sportfive adds Greece, but deal may be risky
Sportfive agency extended its portfolio of European football by acquiring international television rights for the Greek national team
Turkey set to launch two more sports channels
Show TV and ATV to enter dedicated sports channel market
Agencies battle over international sales of Serie A
Challenge by the MP & Silva to wrest long-term control of Serie A international rights from Sportfive
TF1 favoured to retain ligue rights
Eurosport also in the running
Canal Plus starts post-merger era with paltry bid
£3 million per year bid for English Premier League rights, compared to £9 million per year under existing deal
Czech TV loses rights after Prima surprise bid
Sportfive receives 80-per-cent rights fee increase for Euro 2008 rights in Czech Republic