Analysis

Cricket

ESPN Star Sports is getting excellent ratings in India for its football World Cup coverage.

Football

The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, is planning radical changes to how Serie A matches are broadcast
Rugby Union

French rugby union’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby expects to bring in an increased fee for the next period of television rights starting in the 2007-08 season.

Handball

Huge television audiences for 2007 World Championship encourage competition between broadcasters
Cycling

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
Handball

Pay-television operator Modern Times Group has for the first time acquired television rights for Denmark’s popular domestic handball leagues.

Football

Several deals for English Premier League rights imminent
Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports is to sublicense some cricket rights in Pakistan to rival broadcaster Ten Sports.

Football

Danish football clubs will thank the country’s competition authority after its intervention led directly to the signing of new television rights deals

Latest deal, with South Africa's SABC for 2010 and 2012 Olympics, worth $18 million
Cricket

The United Cricket Board is hoping to drop a contract with the Octagon agency so that it can take its international television rights in-house.

Football

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports faces a tough challenge to hit
Football

Sat.1 to show first-choice Wednesday matches, observers question incentive for fans to pay for more
Golf

Setanta’s acquisition of US PGA golf rights came after a fierce bidding war with incumbent rights-holder BSkyB.

Ice Hockey

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC could be squeezed out of sports broadcasting altogether.

Football

€75 million (£56 million) Euro 2008 Spanish rights deal ensures agency makes profit

Football

The row between the Russian Premier League and the Fedcom Media agency over the league’s television and marketing rights will end up in court.