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Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports is close to agreeing its first overseas deal for International Cricket Council events from 2008 to 2011

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close

India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

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

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.

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

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Football: African pay-television broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for the South African Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, in a five-year deal, 2007-08 to 2011-12, w…

Deals made directly with broadcasters boost earnings

Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m).  The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Call by public-service broadcaster SABC to change the country’s listed-events law

Football:  Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)