Belgium

An internal power struggle between a handful of top clubs is complicating the Belgian domestic football league’s planning for its next television rights deal.

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

The Belgian football association's decision to sell the Flemish television rights of national team matches on a match-by-match basis has spectacularly backfired.

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

European rights fees for Euro 2008 reach same level as those paid for 2006 World Cup

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Free-to-air television audiences in French-speaking Belgium were deprived of seeing home star Justine Henin-Hardenne’s progress to the quarter-finals of this year’s Australian Open

The Sportfive agency has agreed deals for Euro 2008 in Israel and Flemish-speaking Belgium

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 confirmed their joint acquisition of the rights for Euro 2008, in a €100m (£68m) deal brokered by the Sportfive agency. 

Belgian FA accepts offer for rights lower than bid rejected last year