Asia

Golf

The Ladies Professional Golf Association tour is bringing in the bulk of its television-rights fees from Asia
Cricket

Cricket:  Indian pay-television broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television acquired the international rights to this month’s India v Pakistan tour for $11.5m (£6m/€8.7m).

Football

Football:  The Dentsu agency acquired the rights in Japan to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in a deal with world football’s governing body.

Formula One is said to have secured an increase in rights fees of close to 20 per cent in Japan

Ecclestone bolsters control by agreeing long-term television deals

The IOC will also start separate talks this spring in Hong Kong, a rights territory which, like China, has been treated as part of the ABU deal until now

Separate deal to be agreed with China for the first time for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Cricket

Neo’s high prices created poor relationships with cable operators

NHK attempts to reduce share of costs fiercely resisted

Football

Deal between Fifa, football’s world governing body, and the Dentsu agency for World Cup television rights
Baseball

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.

Cricket

Cricket:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan was awarded the domestic rights to the upcoming India v Pakistan series by the Madras High Court, which was ruling on the case brought by Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms.

Tennis

The International Tennis Federation has signed several television rights deals in Asia for Davis and Fed Cup tennis.

The International Olympic Committee is hoping for a huge jump in television rights-fees from Korea for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics.

Boxing

Asian Games:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan acquired the exclusive rights in India for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, paying $400,000 (£215,000/€313,000), an increase of $50,000 on what it paid for the previous Games.

Football

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Cricket

Row over Indian cricket board’s television rights took a further twist this week