Asia

Executives from the IMG Media agency have had talks with David Stern, commissioner of US basketball league the NBA, about establishing a professional basketball league in India, Bloomberg reports

Public-service broadcaster the Public Television and Radio Company of Azerbaijan (ITV) acquired free-to-air rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games and the 2016 summer Games in a deal with the Sportfive…

The Nimbus Communications agency should use advertising revenues from its two multi-national pay-television sports channels, Neo Cricket and Neo Sports, to fulfil outstanding payments to the Board of Control…

Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports agreed a carriage deal with Thai pay-television operator TrueVisions

Indian media conglomerate the Times Group is interested in acquiring a majority stake in the Nimbus Communications agency’s two multi-national pay-television sports channels, Neo Cricket and Neo Sports.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India may have to sell rights for the India national team for a lower price following the team’s poor performances in its ongoing tour of Australia, a senior official t…

English football’s Premier League may have to waive rights fees in China if it is to establish a significant presence in the country, according to Pierre Justo, Asia director of sport and media at the T…

Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.

American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.

Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom

ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal

Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…

Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).

IAAF goes back to EBU but says it was right to play the field; IEC anger at athletics loss