Asia

Bernie Ecclestone signed a five-year deal with pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports for pay rights for Formula One throughout Asia, except Japan and China, worth $18 million (£10.4 million/€15.1 million). 

The IMG agency is looking to acquire a stake in a major Chinese broadcaster

Football

Fox Turkey makes first major foray into sport
American Football

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…
Football

Football: Pay-operator Premiere acquired the Austrian pay-television rights for the top two domestic leagues, the Bundesliga and the Zac Erste division, in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Athletics

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Football

Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi is being asked to pay at least twice as much to extend its present deal for the rights for the Asian Football Confederation
Boxing

Horseracing:  UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m). 

Football

Brazilian and Argentinian world tour friendly matches sold to Japan Sports Marketing

Two main lawyers involved in billion-dollar deal between International Cricket Council and ESS are moving on to new positions
Cricket

90-day period of exclusive talks for England & Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe rights exhausted

Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Football

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group

Efforts to achieve market price for rights opposed by Chinese government, national Olympic committee and state broadcaster

The International Olympic Committee has enraged broadcasters worldwide by considering extensive changes to the scheduling of events at the Beijing Olympics.

Cricket

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.

Football

Football: Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Cuatro sublicensed the non-exclusive rights to at least seven matches from the upcoming World Cup from rival broadcaster La Sexta in a deal worth €20m (£14m).

Channel Seven's acquisition of the rights for the V8 Supercar series reflects an all-out assault to become Australia’s most popular network.