Broadcasting
Our team boasts some of the most experienced broadcasting and media lawyers in the country. We advise both buyers and sellers on tender processes and on packaging, producing, acquiring / selling programming across all media platforms throughout the world. We advise on production and host broadcast agreements; magazine and highlights programming; international licensing and distribution of programming; format licensing and rights protection; satellite and technical services; broadcast sponsorship and regulation; broadcast rights protection and disputes; off-tube commentary; etc.
Through years of experience of dealing with broadcast rights for major sports events, we have developed the skills and contacts to deal with any sports broadcasting projects. As digital TV platforms, broadband uptake and mobile wireless technologies change the options available for buyers and sellers of rights, we advise our clients on capitalising upon the new value-creating opportunities that are emerging in the sports and media sectors.
Contacts: Andrew Price, Jon Higton, Dan Harrington
Recent experience includes advising on:
- On a US$612,000,000 acquisition of global media rights to all cricket matches played in India until 2010
- A leading graphics and website solutions provider on its deal to build and manage a major US broadcaster's website with live streaming and real time data update capabilities for the Olympic Games.
- On several bids and subsequent acquisitions of FA Premier League TV rights and mobile and Internet clips rights for various territories through to 2010
- On a number of successful bids for the acquisition of the FA's TV, Internet and mobile rights for various territories
- On bids to acquire media rights for the FIFA World Cup and the ICC Cricket World Cup
- On acquisitions of broadcast and Internet rights to Italian Serie A football
- On a famous racecourse's new media distribution joint venture for licensing of racing footage live to bookmakers
- On a governing body's broadband rights agreements with AOL and Virgin Media and mobile rights agreement with O2
- On global listed events/anti-siphoning legislation for an African broadcaster
- On acquisitions of premier sports and entertainment programming by a new pan-African DTH satellite broadcaster
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