Americas

Ice Skating

ISU president's 'threat' to move figure skating championship from United States is a 'negotiating tactic'

Brazilian commercial broadcaster pays huge fee to capture important rights deal
Baseball

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Cricket

Global Cricket Corporation will be handicapped when it bids for the next round of rights.

Football

Football: Caribbean sports cable channel SportsMax acquired the free-to-air and pay-television rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014 in a deal worth $18m (£9.3m/€13.7m). 
Football

TV Azteca and Televisa have unofficially agreed not to compete for football

Football

Brazilian broadcaster agrees to sublicense premium channels to pay television rivals
Football

FIFA: World Cup rights were not Caribbean Football Union's to sell
Cycling

Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from  the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …
Australian Rules Football

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315
Basketball

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired a package of free-to-air rights for English football’s Premier League in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10. 
American Football

The elimination of NFL costs will push ABC towards near-term profitability
Football

Commentators believe that the NFL deals will have a marked effect on other sports
Football

There remains one last piece of the NFL puzzle to be sold
American Football

Domestic deals for American football’s National Football League signals major changes of strategy
Football

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
Football

Football:  The Dentsu agency acquired the rights in Japan to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in a deal with world football’s governing body.

Baseball

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC is expected to renew its long-standing rights deal with US ice-hockey’s National Hockey League, although it will have to pay more and share the most attractive m…