Asia

Cricket

The Dubai-based Ten Sports channel maintained its audience-share leadership among Indian sports channels in 2007

Badminton

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…
Football

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Cricket

ESPN Star Sports is getting excellent ratings in India for its football World Cup coverage.

Football

Several deals for English Premier League rights imminent
Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports is to sublicense some cricket rights in Pakistan to rival broadcaster Ten Sports.

Latest deal, with South Africa's SABC for 2010 and 2012 Olympics, worth $18 million
Athletics

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008
Basketball

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011
Basketball

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 
Golf

Falling ratings, bad timezone, no Japanese stars lead to no interest in US PGA Championship among Japanese broadcasters

Public service broadcaster PTNI still owes IOC money from Sydney Olympics
Athletics

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

Deal signed this week by the organisers of next year’s Melbourne Commonwealth Games with Indian public-service broadcaster

Hopes new minister may lead to changes in the listed-events legislation now being drafted by parliament.
Football

ABU failed to draw enough support from its larger members to submit a bid.
Cricket

Skiing: Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR acquired the rights for Swiss World Cup events in a four-year deal, 2007-08 to 2010-11, with the Swiss ski federation
Football

Football: African pay-television broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for the South African Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, in a five-year deal, 2007-08 to 2011-12, w…