Ice Hockey

Basketball

Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…
Football

Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
Football

Agency likely to renew deal for loss-making Bundesliga content
Boxing

Chief Executive Kofler's restructuring programme has turned company around
Ice Hockey

UK ice hockey "a mess"
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Baseball

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Cycling

Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.
Football

The collapse of Scandinavian sponsorship and rights agency Sponsor Service has put the future of a number of television-rights deals in doubt.

Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Cricket

Rugby Union:  The BBC extended its deal for rugby union’s Six Nations Championship for a further four years, from 2006 to 2009.  The deal includes radio, television and internet rights.  T
American Football

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…
Football

A landmark investigation by the Swedish tax authority into whether television-rights income should be subject to tax could have major financial implications
American Football

Ice Hockey: The US National Hockey League signed a two-year deal with the NBC network, with an option to renew for a further two years
American Football

American Football:  The National Football League signed new deals with three of its five major US television partners – the CBS and Fox networks and digital satellite platform DirecTV

Bobsleigh/skeleton

Rugby union: Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the live rights for English international and domestic rugby in a five-year deal, 2005-06 to 2009-10, with the Rugby Football Union, the sport’s national governing body, and Premier Rugby, the umbrella body of the country’s top-tier clubs.

Basketball

Basketball:  Spain’s top domestic league, the ACB Liga, failed to agree television deals in time for the start of its season for the second successive year.

Ice Hockey

The German ice hockey league started the new season last week without a live-rights television deal in place.