Asia
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Six Nations, Formula One, golf, basketball, cricket
Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Bundesliga, CAF, Euro 2008 and other football
Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15.
World Cup viewing falls. India needed better reach, Russia needed to qualify
The 2006 football World Cup attracted average audiences in India of 976,000 viewers per match.
Asia fees up despite ‘Eurocentric’ Uefa
Sportfive has agreed deals in key South East Asian markets, including Malaysia and Indonesia
Asian, African bids help English FA triple global fees
Asian fees alone likely to exceed £40 million
World Cup Asia fees keep rising
Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian sub-continent and likely to be the next Asian territories to sign television rights deals for football’s World Cup
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro 2008 host country deal and other football
Football: Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal worth €10m (£7m).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: rugby union, cricket, ice-hockey and tennis
Rugby Union: Pay-broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for South Africa’s domestic Currie Cup competition and home Test matches outside the Tri-Nations tournament.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Ligue 1, Ekstraklasa, Euro 2008 and others
Football: France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel agreed new deals for top-tier Ligue 1.
Neo serves up top tennis in India
Indian sports broadcaster Neo will pay a combined $130,000 (£66,000/ €88,000) a year in the two deals it signed this week for the Women’s Tennis Association Tour and Davis and Fed Cup tennis.
Twenty20 gets Neo off to fast start on Rs5bn sales chase
Indian television advertising rates hit record high during World Twenty20 Championship final
Reality TV gives skating federation much-needed lift
EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase
Ambitious Silva wants to be in agency elite in three years
Agency is close to deals for basketball and motorsport, plans aggressive bids for French and German football
Serie A fees rise, but big jump must wait for next time
MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Athletics, cricket, hockey, boxing and NFL
Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Premier League, Serie A football, Formula One
Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).
FA tender to ignite ‘platform wars’ and double fees
Platform-specific packages aimed at pitting broadcasters against mobile and internet operators for new media rights