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Sky Italia has ponied up 130 million [euro] ($172 million) for exclusive rights in Italy to the UEFA Champions League soccer tournament for three years beginning 2012--paying three times what [...]

All of France's terrestrial webs except France 3 saw audience share fall slightly in 2006, although TF1, down 0.7% to 31.6%, strengthened its hold on primetime with a kick from [...]

ESPN has engineered an eight-year renewal of its deal for the rights to a package of Major League Soccer games through 2014. The deal follows the high-rated World Cup telecast [...]

ESPN has reached an agreement for multiplatform domestic and international rights through 2009 for the UEFA Champions League soccer tournament. Deal makes ESPN the only broadcaster for all Tuesday UEFA [...]

MIAMI -- U.S. Spanish-lingo sports net ESPN Deportes kicked off coverage today of the second leg of the knockout stage of the Uefa champions league, as European clubs compete for [...]

MIAMI -- Fox Sports en Espanol has acquired exclusive rights to live U.S. broadcasts of a selection of regular-season Mexican league soccer marches. The two-year deal kicks off with Saturday's [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Ah, the lure of soccer. Recent matches have broken ratings records in the U.K., Mexico and Argentina--and it isn't even a World Cup year. In Blighty, an [...]

BERLIN -- Haim Saban's ProSiebenSat 1 is making a play for pay TV. Company is reportedly offering 600 million [euro] ($762 million) to the German Football League (DFL) for pay [...]

BRUSSELS -- European Union competition watchdogs have forced satcaster BSkyB to give up its TV rights stranglehold on English soccer in a compromise that will see Premier League games air [...]

BRUSSELS -- European Union competition topper Mario Monti, still irritated at BSkyB's virtual lock on British soccer, has threatened to shorten the satcaster's 1 billion [pounds sterling] ($1.7 billion) three-year [...]

BRUSSELS -- England's soccer clubs are poised to accept a 1 billion [pounds sterling] ($1.6 billion) winner-takes-all bid from Rupert Murdoch's satcaster BSkyB for rights to live coverage of games, [...]