UEFA and Free-to-air Television
UEFA kept a policy that each country should be able to watch their own team on free-to-air television. However, UEFA was unhappy that the list of events that must be shown on terrestrial television in the United Kingdom included all of the matches in the tournament even though none of the home nations qualified for the event. Only in the United Kingdom and Belgium were pay television unable to bid for any of the live broadcasting rights. UEFA is bringing a legal case with the European Union as it saw this as infringing their property rights and distorted competition.
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