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.
- The BBC sport website had a record-breaking day on Wednesday 23 June after six million different users logged on, according to the BBC’s director of London 2012, Roger Mosey.
- Italian broadcasters Rai, Mediaset and Sky Italia are facing fines of up to €258,000 each in a probe into the use of ‘mini-spot’ advertisements which was launched this week by the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian financial police.
- Spain’s 1-0 win over Portugal in the World Cup’s first knockout stage was watched by 12.567 million viewers, a 71.2-per-cent audience share, on commercial channel Telecinco.
- Hong Kong telecoms company I-Cable Communications today said that it expects to make as a loss in the first six months of the year, largely because of the high cost of sports programming.
- The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will re-tender the international media rights for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition after cancelling the existing contract with the World Sport Group agency (WSG).
- The Sportfive agency is set to secure an important victory in agreeing a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, for the Euro 2012 media rights in Asia and Oceania.