Americas

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Air Racing

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…
Baseball

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Ice Skating

Skate Canada becomes second national ice-skating body after the US to lose its domestic television rights fee

Football

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Brazil’s only free-to-air sports channel, TV Esporte Interativo, is seeking financial investment
Cricket

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close
Football

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

American Football

Boxing: German public-service broadcaster ARD acquired the rights for a minimum 12 fights a year from Sauerland Promotions in a four-year deal, 2008 to 2011, renewing a previous contract
Cricket

India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week
Basketball

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Badminton

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…
Football

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Ice Hockey

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC could be squeezed out of sports broadcasting altogether.

Baseball

The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007

Basketball

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011
Basketball

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16.