Football

Mixed news for European domestic cup football audiences

Head of Italy office set to leave, Italian operation under review

TF1 appears to have done its best to undermine the coverage of most of the remaining games by the rival M6 channel.

UK television audiences for English football’s FA Cup showed a healthy increase this season.

Rights-holders and commercial broadcasters united in opposition

Television audiences for BSkyB's coverage of English Premier League football dropped marginally in 2005-06.

It was a one-off, unparalleled, cost-free advertisement for pay-services

TV Azteca and Televisa have unofficially agreed not to compete for football

German football’s Bundesliga is facing an unprecedented row over the sale of its television rights.

Brazilian broadcaster agrees to sublicense premium channels to pay television rivals

English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.

Mediapro is bidding aggressively for the television rights of Barcelona and other top Spanish football clubs.

Rights fee trebles, still falls short of asking price

Anxious wait to see whether state broadcaster CCTV will finally pay market rates

FIFA: World Cup rights were not Caribbean Football Union's to sell

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired a package of free-to-air rights for English football’s Premier League in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10.