Portugal

Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP and pay-television broadcasters RTP agreed a three-year deal with UEFA for the TV rights for the UEFA Champions League.

American agency CAA Sports and Portuguese agency Gestifute formed a new partnership around their football talent businesses.

Portuguese football club, FC Porto, extended its TV rights deal with Olivedesportos Publicidade, Televisao e Media SA until the end of the 2013-14 season.

IEC in Sports agreed an international distribution deal with Portuguese Football League. The deal covers territories in most of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Portuguese Secretary of State for Youth and Sport Laurentino Dias has become the latest prominent figure to endorse a joint 2018 World Cup bid by Portugal and Spain.

Media Partners & Silva agreed a deal with Sport Tv for the broadcast of Italian Serie A matches in Portugal.

The Portuguese government is set to launch a tender this year for terrestrial digital TV, aiming to start broadcasts in 2008.

Portimão, the Algarve’s most popular holiday destination, was confirmed as a future host city for the Powerboat P1 World Championship.

Portuguese broadcasters Televisão Independente (TVI) and SPORT TV acquired the TV rights for EURO 2008™ in a deal with UEFA.

The TV production arm of internet TV specialists Narrowstep and Octagon CSI have won the contract to provide the TV production and distribution of a top sailing event.

The Extreme Sports Channel entered the international mobile TV market as part of an overall strategy to extend the reach of its branded content services and create additional revenue streams.

The Sportfive agency signed a deal to market the rights to the Portuguese league on the Asian market.

Uefa agreed deals with public-service broadcaster RTP in Portugal and Pay-TV broadcaster Premiere in Germany for the UEFA Cup quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals for the 2006-2009 period and the Uefa Super Cup from 2006 to 2008.

The FC)dC)ration Internationale de l’Automobile approved the calendar for the 2007 World Rally Championship, adding three new races in Ireland, Norway and Portugal. The new races replace those in Australia, Cyprus and Turkey. The FIA said in a statement that its World Motor Sport Council had approved a calendar which would continue to run on the existing January-November format instead of the proposed August-May switch. It said that it would decide whether to add further events to the calendar at its next World Motor Sport Council meeting.

The 24-hour sports channel ESPN Classic agreed a deal with Spanish telecoms company TelefC3nica for carriage on its IPTV platform Imagenio. The deal marks the channel’s first move into the Spanish IPTV market.

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