Americas

Football

Football: Benfica TV, the club channel of Portuguese Liga club Benfica, acquired rights for 180 matches featuring a range of clubs and national teams taking place between now and December 2011
Football

Football: Hong Kong pay-television operator Now TV acquired the rights to Euro 2012 from the Sportfive agency(page 8)
Football

Full Play produces letter from Conmebol to back up claim to have Copa America rights

Snooker

Olympic Games: The International Olympic Committee agreed media-rights deals in France, Germany and Korea for the Olympic Games (see story this issue)
American Football

Football: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights to China’s international football teams for three-and-a-half years, from July 23 until the end of 2014, from the Chinese Football Association’s com…
Football

Football: Korean media group SBS acquired the rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in a deal worth between $180m (€124m) and $200m (see story this issue).
Boxing

Golden Boy taking over
Football

New Brazil-Argentina event will not have all the top players
Football

NHL rights lost to Medge/AMI. Orange Sport deal fallen through. Shadows over ESPN
Football

Five-year deal helps NHL to big increase but 'it could have made more,' one bidder says

IOC up in France and down in Germany after tough talks

Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts: Fight sports programme distributors, Fighting Spirit, agreed a deal from June until the end of 2012 with mixed martial arts promotion M-1 Global in Africa, Europe and the Middle East…
Athletics

Asian Games: The organising committee of the 2014 Asian Games signed memorandums of understanding with Korean networks KBS, MBC and SBS, provisionally appointing them as host broadcasters
Football

Football: Israeli pay-television broadcaster Charlton acquired the rights for Euro 2012 in a deal with Uefa
Football

ESPN and Fox make peace in Latin America to keep DirecTV out of Champions League
Football

Football: France’s football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, sold the domestic rights to the top division, Ligue 1, for four years, 2012-13 to 2015-16, to pay-television operator Canal Plus a…
Ice Hockey

Europe on standby as NHL is on the verge of awarding rights
Cricket

Digital Plus furious about YouTube Copa ... Urhotv looking for partners ... ESPN looking at UK revamp