Americas

American Football

Basketball: The US National Basketball Association signed deals for this season with 164 broadcasters covering 215 countries.

Football

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

Formula One has signed long-term deals in four major markets – Italy, Brazil, Australia and Russia – securing rights-fee increases across the board.
Cricket

Skiing: Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR acquired the rights for Swiss World Cup events in a four-year deal, 2007-08 to 2010-11, with the Swiss ski federation
Football

Football: African pay-television broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for the South African Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, in a five-year deal, 2007-08 to 2011-12, w…
Football

Italian football declining in popularity in the UK
Football

Suspended Head of Television and Marketing back to work as Fifa continue restructuring
American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…
Boxing

One-sided, mismatched bouts damaging boxing's television audiences
Swimming

Table tennis and swimming federations seek larger allocations, Summer federations push IOC to reduce USOC funding

American Football

Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m).  The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.

Ice Hockey

The North American National Hockey League has effected a remarkable turnaround
Football

Football: German pay-broadcaster Premiere acquired exclusive rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from 2006-07 to 2008-09

Boxing

Formula 1: Spanish sports agency Mediapro acquired the rights for Formula 1 in a five-year deal, 2009 to 2013, in a deal thought to be worth about €35m (£24m) a year.
Basketball

Football: Jamaican commercial broadcaster CVM TV sublicensed rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cup competitions from Caribbean sports cable operator SportsMax
Football

Domestic league does not control its own rights, and pay-TV coverage is pushing fans towards free-to-air European football
Football

Torneos and Clarín give in to demand for big fee increase
Football

Bid of over R$500 million per season bid a possibility as Record prepares to launch new sports channel