Americas

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.

Rugby League: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB and public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights for the top-tier Super League, the second-tier National League, international matches and the Challenge…

Olympics: New Zealand pay-broadcaster Sky Television and its free-to-air arm Prime acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a $10.5m (£5.1m/€7.2m) deal with the International Olympic Committee.

US football’s Major League Soccer is in talks with the Mexican football league over the launch of a mini-Champion’s League competition.

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.

The Nimbus Sport agency looks set to make a profit on the international rights for Indian cricket.

Middle East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport has acquired the region’s television rights for Formula One in a last-minute deal.

Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for US motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.

Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.

Football: French mobile operator Orange acquired the mobile phone rights to France’s Ligue 1 in a two-year deal, covering the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Expatriate communities in North America have turned themselves from a niche television audience into one of the fastest growing sports rights markets in the world.

The decision by American Football’s National Football League to turn down strong commercial offers to its NFL Network is a major strategic move to develop the channel.

Football: A consortium of Telecoms company Telenor and Scandinavia’s commercial broadcasters, TV2 in Denmark, TV2 in Norway and TV4 in Sweden, acquired the rights for the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal w…

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.

Canadian cable sports channel The Score’s acquisition of English Premier League football rights was a surprise win over Rogers SportsNet.