TV Sports Markets Newslines
A round-up of the major headlines and TV rights news from TV Sports Markets and the world of televised sport. TV Sport Markets is the highly acclaimed industry reference tool for the main players in the broadcast and sport industry worldwide.
- Manchester United has yet to decide on an international distribution strategy for its in-house television channel, MUTV, five months since it first invited agency bids.
- Formula One became the latest high-profile victim of the flagging Dutch television market, with commercial broadcaster RTL secured a rights-fee cut understood to be in the region of 60 per cent.
- The Deutsche Fussball Liga is weighing up its options as to how to monetise its newly-created archive of Bundesliga classic footage.
- Eredivisie Live, the in-house channel launched by the top-tier Dutch football league, says that it is on track to hit its second-season subscriber target.
- In-house channels have become a hot topic among Europe’s top football leagues in recent months, reflecting not so much growing technical opportunities as the looming prospect of difficult rights negotiations next time round.
- English football’s Premier League has renewed its deal in China with incumbent broadcaster, pay-operator Win TV.