Horse Racing
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Boxing, Formula 1, horse racing, ice hockey, rugby and tennis
Boxing: German commercial broadcaster Prosiebensat
BBC expects steady growth in HD sports viewing
The latest figures from the UK and beyond showing HD's growth.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball, boxing, F1, golf, Paralympic, swimming and more
Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.
Champions League tops the pile but sports viewing slips
Six Nations and The Open the only major events to see their top audiences rise.
Relief for racing tempered by BBC’s harsh reality
UK horseracing achieved its goal in securing over 90 days of racing on terrestrial television.
TV Rights Deals 2: All the latest cricket, cycling, extreme sport and ESPN UK deals
Basketball: PCTV-owned Mexican pay-broadcaster TVC Deportes extended it deal for the live rights to the ACB Spanish Basketball League in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Uefa tops UK viewing charts
In a major year of sporting action, Uefa events accounted for the biggest audiences for the BBC, ITV1, Five and BSkyB.
What now for Channel Four after skiing goes?
Channel Four’s decision to drop its coverage of the alpine skiing, snowboarding and Nordic World Cups has drawn strong criticism from both the sports and television production sectors.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, racing and more
Football: Gioco Calcio, the fledgling pay-per-view football service launched this season by six small clubs from Italy’s Serie A, is likely to lose one or two of its clubs to pay-operator Sky Italia, a…
World Cups for rugby and cricket dominate Top 20
The rugby World Cup and the cricket World Cup account for 11 of the Top 20 most popular televised sports events on Australian television in 2003
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
A tougher C4 says it’s not going to drop its big sports
Is UK broadcaster Channel 4 losing interest in sport?
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Olympics and horseracing
Football: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…
State TV attacked for showing too much handball
Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, horseracing, Formula 1 and more
Football: Portuguese state broadcaster RTP completed the sublicensing of 19 of the 31 matches in this year’s football European Championship to rival commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI (TV Sports Markets 7…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, horseracing, football and more
Olympics: The International Olympic Committee will start a tendering process in March for the sale of television rights in Europe to the 2010 Olympics and beyond.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice hockey, cycling, football and more
Ice hockey: US broadcasters ABC and ESPN, which are seeking to renew a five-year deal with the National Hockey League, are said to have offered only about half the $120m (£66m/€94m) a year they now pa…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, horseracing, boxing and tennis
Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price.