SportBusiness Staff

French football’s Ligue 1 rights the most expensive in the world

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Nimbus will pay $612

·   Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).  TVP

SBS6 acquired the exclusive rights for all Professional Darts Corporation events in the Netherlands.

Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid was the world’s biggest earning club in 2004-05.

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

NTV Plus set to acquire domestic rights for the Russian Premier League.

South Africa’s Premier Soccer League wants to renew its domestic television rights deal a year early to bring in a higher fee.

English football’s Premier League is likely to split the sale of its delayed-as-live television rights into two packages in its forthcoming tender.

Premiere, the German pay-television broadcaster, has salvaged something of its reputation following its deal with DSF.