Rugby Union

Cricket

Forthcoming negotiations for the domestic rights for English rugby union’s Guinness Premiership will act as an interesting barometer of the state of the UK sports rights market, three months before the start of football’s Premier League rights talks.

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The IRB secured a massive increase in television rights fees in Australia as pay broadcaster Fox Sports fought off a major challenge from free-to-air network Ten to win the rights for the 2011 and 2015 rugby union World Cups.

Basketball

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Rugby Union

Italian state broadcaster Rai acquired the rights for Italy’s domestic rugby union league, the Super 10 after Sky Italia chose not to renew its three-year deal.

Rugby Union

Rugby Football Union said that IRB’s asking price for clips risked “killing the goose”
Rugby Union

Deals for England internationals and domestic club rugby have two years to run
Australian Rules Football

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
Boxing

Boxing one of a range of sports ITV is looking at “to replace” the Premier League
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…
Rugby Union

Heineken Cup could be broadcast on pay-TV in France for first time
Rugby Union

British Sky Broadcasting acquired the rights for European rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a three-year deal said to be worth £20m (€28.7m), entering talks at the last moment.  In
Athletics

Rugby and football associations expect listing to hit finances, cricket board welcomes chance to get good price for rights
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The BBC increased its viewing figures for rugby union’s Six Nations championship this year by 770,000.
Rugby Union

A later kick off helped the BBC achieve its highest rugby union Six Nations audience since 1997.
Rugby Union

Late kick-offs work, at least for broadcasters of the Six Nations tournament in France and the UK.  And they would like more of them.
Rugby Union

Surprise within industry at tight timeline and offer of one-tournament deal only
Cricket

Olympics: The European Broad-casting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters, acquired the rights to the Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Summer Games in 2012.

Football

Rugby union:  Incumbent rights-holder IMG won the commercial rights for rugby union’s 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups.  It beat opposition from Champions League agency Team Marketing.  I