Americas

Ecclestone bolsters control by agreeing long-term television deals

The IOC will also start separate talks this spring in Hong Kong, a rights territory which, like China, has been treated as part of the ABU deal until now
Football

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Football

Uefa was disappointed with the EBU’s final presentation

CBC has come under widespread criticism for bidding too low for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

there were three reasons for the unexpectedly high bid from the consortium of Bell Globemedia and Rogers

The Bell Globemedia-Rogers bid is a huge rise on what CBC paid

Failure of Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC to hold on to the television and new-media rights for the Olympic Games
Baseball

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

Nascar will get a big increase in television rights fees

Australian Rules Football

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Baseball

Major League Baseball may have left negotiations with the US television networks too late to sell its main rights package for an increased fee.

Cricket

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Nimbus will pay $612
Darts

SBS6 acquired the exclusive rights for all Professional Darts Corporation events in the Netherlands.

Basketball

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency. 
Football

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.
Athletics

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.

Darts

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.