Asia

Football

Top value Serie A rights sold in one-year deals - total rights fee looks set to fall
Football

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…

Lack of national representation or medal hopes and rescheduling of events to suit US audiences hits Asian broadcasters' chances of recouping rights outlay

Free-to-air broadcasters fear that IOCs commitment to getting widest possible exposure for Games is becoming compromised by push to maximise revenues.
Air Racing

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…
Football

Sportfive fights off strong competition to win international rights for 2008-09 to 2009-10

Boxing

Commonwealth Games: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten and pay-operator Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Football

Ten Sports present position as India’s most-watched sports channel played a major role in its acquisition of the Indian sub-continent rights for the Champions League.

Cricket

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close
Football

SingTel plans to launch a pay-television service at the end of the year.

Cricket

A billion-dollar deal signed last weekend for the Indian cricket board’s new domestic Twenty20 tournament, the India Premier League, could mark a new commercial era for the sport

American Football

Boxing: German public-service broadcaster ARD acquired the rights for a minimum 12 fights a year from Sauerland Promotions in a four-year deal, 2008 to 2011, renewing a previous contract
Cricket

India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week
Football

Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa
Basketball

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Cricket

Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets