Americas

Formula One Management is to agree a two-year extension with its long-term Latin American broadcaster, cable channel Fox, for the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

Senior executives in the television and sports sectors fear that the decision to change the event schedule of the 2008 Olympics to benefit NBC will undermine the value of Olympic TV contracts.

Australian Rules Football

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.

Football

Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m
Cricket

Availability of Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, West Indies players in doubt due to clashes with scheduled tours
Basketball

Increased fees and coverage in Italy and Spain, but no renewal in UK, and fees and contract lengths fall in France and Germany
Football

Legislation requires collective selling of Italian football rights, possibly in breach of EU competition law
Boxing

Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …
Football

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

Football

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

Basketball

Olympics: Australia’s Nine Network and pay-platform Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a deal worth A$126m (£55m/€79m) with the International Olympic Committee.  In
Cricket

Further evidence of the Indian board’s growing influence across the sport.

American Football

Cricket: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired the rights to this month's Champions Trophy and the 2007 World Cup in a deal with News Corporation subsidiary Global Cricket Corporation.

Football

Football: Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal with the Sportfive agency.

Basketball

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m). 
Boxing

Boxing website SecondsOut.com is close to tying up rights deals with top US and European promoters to show fights on internet pay-per-view.

Football

Major League Soccer will bring in rights fees of about $18.5 million a year from next season, an indication of television’s growing faith in the sport.

Football

The election of a new president of Mexico’s football association will move forward the implementation of a four-year plan to professionalise the game.