Asia
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf and Commonwealth Games
Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.
TV RIGHTS 2: New Media round-up, baseball, rugby, tennis
Football: French mobile operator Orange acquired the mobile phone rights to France’s Ligue 1 in a two-year deal, covering the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.
TV RIGHTS CLIP 1: Football, Olympics, motor racing and others
Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, cricket, motorsport, handball and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: ICC, World Cup and Euro football and more
Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.
Yes says No, paving way for Sportfive
Sportfive outbid local agency Dentsu to win the Japanese rights for the English Premier League.
Euro 2008 set to bring in $100m outside Europe
Uefa, European football’s governing body, is on course to bring in about £51 million for the 2008 European Championship outside Europe.
The deal that ESS had to win
Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has won the rights for cricket’s next two World Cups.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Premier League, Real Madrid, F1, rugby and more
Fox double in US and Australia
The Fox Soccer Channel and pay-operator Setanta acquired the Premier League rights in the USA for $57 million.
Indian fees soar as ESS bids against ghosts
ESPN Star Sports won the Premier League rights in the Indian sub-continent by a large margin.
Japanese fees drop but Yes victory is mixed blessing
Premier League rights fees in Japan fell by 30 per cent.
China pays record fee for league in watershed deal
The Premier League has sold its media rights in China in what is thought to be the country’s biggest ever sports-rights deal.
Premier League riding high as ESS takes a battering
Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will have to adapt to a very different world after the latest round of bidding for English football’s Premier League rights.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Bobsleigh, cricket, horseracing and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Premier League, other football, rugby, tennis
Now for the Hong Kong pay-TV killer blow
PCCW looks to have delivered a killer blow in the battle to dominate the local pay-television market by snatching the Premier League rights from rival I-Cable TV.
But $1bn may be hard for ICC
The ICC is struggling to generate the same intensity of bidding for its television rights as that seen for Indian cricket earlier this year.