Americas

Cycling

Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.

Basketball

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 
Football

Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
Basketball

Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
Football

Football: Gioco Calcio, the fledgling pay-per-view football service launched this season by six small clubs from Italy’s Serie A, is likely to lose one or two of its clubs to pay-operator Sky Italia, a…
Boxing

Most experts put it down to a lack of boxing on network TV in the US
Boxing

From next month, ESPN will no longer pay promoters $50K Friday Night Fights rights fee
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.