Asia

Cricket

The ICC is struggling to generate the same intensity of bidding for its television rights as that seen for Indian cricket earlier this year.

Football

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

Football

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business
Athletics

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

Cricket

The Bangladesh Cricket Control Board looks as if it might be scaring off potential bidders with an overly ambitious tender.

Senior executives in the television and sports sectors fear that the decision to change the event schedule of the 2008 Olympics to benefit NBC will undermine the value of Olympic TV contracts.

Basketball

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

Football

Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m
Cricket

Availability of Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, West Indies players in doubt due to clashes with scheduled tours
Cricket

Legal challenges, ICC appeal, approach to rivals to share coverage - all fail for broadcaster blacklisted by state
Basketball

Increased fees and coverage in Italy and Spain, but no renewal in UK, and fees and contract lengths fall in France and Germany
Football

If continued for three years, one-year deals agreed so far with terrestrial broadcasters would leave agency with $4 million loss
Boxing

Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …
Football

Sportfive snatches Latin American continental club football competitions in a one-year deal
Cricket

Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.

Football

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

Cricket

Satellite broadcaster unable to exploit India-Pakistan cricket tour rights as political turmoil leads to television signals being switched off
Basketball

Olympics: Australia’s Nine Network and pay-platform Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a deal worth A$126m (£55m/€79m) with the International Olympic Committee.  In