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UK pay-broadcaster Setanta’s audiences for Premier League football are up 56 per cent on last season, according to the latest figures.
TV Rights Deals 2: Athletics, women’s British Open and more
Athletics: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC extended its deal for domestic athletics events for a further six years, from 2009 to 2014
TV Rights Deals 2: College Football, the British Open and more
American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.
Ten goes Fox hunting with free-to-air sports channel
The launch of Australia’s first-ever free-to-air sports channel, One, is an unprecedented challenge to leading pay sports broadcaster Fox Sports.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics, athletics, MotoGP, golf and more
Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Uefa club football, wrestling, cycling and golf
Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.
News in brief
Football fans in the Middle East have had a battle to access Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of Euro 2008.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NHL, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, golf and more
Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Formula 1, golf and more
Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
Al-Jazeera wins first sports rights, with more to come
New channels face competition from satellite operators ADD, Showtime, Orbit, and free-to-air MBC
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, rugby league, cricket and more
Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, boxing and more
The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…
Amaury ‘wise to go for golf, but not’ equestrian driving
The move by Amaury, owner of the commercial rights to cycling’s Tour de France, into golf and equestrianism has brought a mixed response from observers.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Golf, football, tennis and more
Satellite pay-television operator BSkyB renewed four important golf deals: (1) exclusive live rights for two Ryder Cups (in 2006 and 2008) with European Tour Productions; (2) live rights for 34 events…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Boxing, football, golf and more
A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Forget cricket, Ciclitira banks all on Asian golf
David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, tennis and more
Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Euro and African football, tennis, cricket, basketball and golf
Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…