Americas

Boxing

Showtime's phasing out of multi-fight deals in favour of top single bouts will mean no obligation to sanctioning bodies
Football

Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.

The International Olympic Committee has held early talks with five Canadian media groups interested in broadcasting the 2010 Winter Olympics, to be held in Vancouver
Cricket

Indian government approves Pakistan cricket matches, Ten looking at as much as $18m ad revenue

Football

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Football

Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel

Octagan seeking TV deal for Gravity Games

EBU deal may be compromised, adding to problems its faces from loss of exemption from Euro competition law
Boxing

King has the content, but will he get cable carriage and sponsorship?

David Kogan's Reel Enterprises to provide market analysis for Olympics rights negotiations
Boxing

Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs. 
Boxing

The plan of a US television executive to launch a dedicated boxing channel in the US is being regarded with a large amount of scepticism.

“The Olympics are not a sporting event. They are the only great family viewing experience left on all of American television.”
Boxing

The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…
Cycling

AOL Time Warner pulled out of the bidding for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games because, it said, it could not meet the International Olympic Committee’s tender requirements.
Boxing

US television network NBC is close to signing a follow-up agreement to its landmark deal with boxing promoter Main Events.

Baseball

Basketball’s Houston Rockets and baseball’s Houston Astros are the latest US major league sports teams to launch their own regional sports channel.

Football

The fight between WBC heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis and Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko was watched by 4