Asia

Cricket
Asia

Asian broadcaster Ten Sports is to acquire the rights for Sri Lankan cricket
Badminton
China

The International Badminton Federation, like other federations, is considering taking at least some of its television rights in-house
Football
Asia

Yes Television, the Hong-Kong based broadband and television service provider, is to launch two 24-hour football channels in Asia
Football
Asia

Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, said that Fifa may take the selling of television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in-house.
Football
Canada

Olympics: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial broadcasters Fuji TV, NTV, TV Asahi, TBS and Tokyo TV, acquired the media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics…
Football
Australia

Can television audiences for cricket’s new India Premier League Twenty20 competition be sustained?
Asia

The International Olympic Committee’s deal in Japan for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics brings to an end a difficult, 18-month negotiation
Cricket
Australia

Cricket: Australian sports broad-caster Fox Sports acquired the rights for Australia’s next two tours to India, including the four Test series in October and the seven one-day internationals in 2009, i…
Basketball
Asia

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Cricket
France

IMG set to win one, lose one as football talks close
Football
Brazil

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
Cricket
Asia

Olympics: CCTV.com, the new-media arm of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, acquired the new-media rights for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in a deal worth an estimated $7m (£3.5m/ €4.9m
Football
Africa

Football: Spanish commercial broadcaster Cuatro and digital satellite operator Digital Plus, both owned by media group Sogecable, acquired the rights for Euro 2008 from Uefa, in a deal brokered by the…
Basketball
Africa

Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency.  In Ghana, state broadcaster GTV acquired the rights for €1m (£686,000).

Cricket
Asia

Rescheduling of cricket calendar leads to Ten Sports extending Sri Lankan Cricket Board deal for three years without tender
Cricket
Asia

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.

Football
Asia

Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).

Badminton
Asia

Five provincial channels pool resources and sports content in new joint-venture channel