Analysis

Cricket
Europe

$612 million deal signed by the Nimbus Sport agency for worldwide television rights for cricket played in India is looking increasingly risky.

Football
Asia

Football’s governing body in Australia hopes to increase television-rights revenue for national team’s matches

Golf
Europe

Irish government likely to add final day’s coverage of the Ryder Cup to its list of events protected for free-to-air coverage.

Football
Europe

Uefa's stumbling block in rights negotions for Euro 2008

Football
Europe

Serie A champions Juventus set to sign a deal with Italian state broadcaster Rai.

Football
Europe

The International Olympic Committee in major dispute with US television network ABC

Boxing
Central America

US television networks HBO, Showtime and ESPN set to increase amount of boxing shown

Football
Europe

Irish broadcasters TV3 and Setanta issue complaint against ITV

Football
Europe

Mediaset and Serie A’s Juventus sign €248 million deal

James Pickles, Miriam Sherlock and Ben Speight report from Monaco on the talk of the town duringthe Sportel trade fair
Football
Europe

Sky Italia this week threatened legal action for breach of contract
Football
Europe

England’s Premier League agreed to end British Sky Broadcasting’s monopoly over live coverage of league games as part of a compromise deal with the European Commission which is expected to end the com…
Europe

The collapse last year of Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula 1 digital “super signal” service was thought likely to end the coverage of the sport on pay-television.

Kirch, ITV Digital and the Football League, NTL, the Scottish Premier League, the aftermath of the ISL affair at Fifa. Quite apart from self-inflicted wounds at Fifa and also at Vivendi/Canal Plus

The impending takeover by French media group Vivendi Universal of the crippled Swiss sports agency ISL will provide an important counterbalance against the Kirch Group in the sale of football World Cup…

This week's Restrictive Practices Court ruling on the Premier League's television arrangements puts the UK at odds with much of the rest of Europe

The Italian competition authority last week threw the issue of the sale of soccer television rights into greater turmoil by launching an investigation into the collective selling of rights by the Lega…

England’s Premier League and European football’s governing body Uefa would have a hard job getting legal support to stop rebel clubs joining the proposed European super league.