Brazil

Football

Football: The African Union of Broadcasters signed a deal with Fifa for the English, French and Portuguese-language television and radio rights to the 2010 World Cup.

Cricket

The Premier League may offer overseas broadcasters a ready-made Premier League channel in the next three-year rights cycle, as it looks to maintain the steep increase in its international rights revenue in a softening market.

Baseball

Baseball: US sports network ESPN extended a deal with Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm for inter-active television and other digital media rights through to 2013.
Football

Football: Bulgarian free-to-air broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for Bulgaria’s domestic top-tier A league in a five-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2013-14, worth a reported €30m (£23m). Fo
Football

Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Globo robustly denied reports that it would not be renewing television rights deals with Olympic sports after rival Rede Record grabbed the rights to the 2011 Pan American Games.
Basketball

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Football

Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)
Athletics

Olympics: The Asia-Pacific Broad-casting Union acquired the free-to-air terrestrial and radio rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics for $10m (£5.1m/€6.4m) in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 
Cycling

Football: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the exclusive television rights in the Indian sub-continent for Fifa events in 2009 and 2010, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Football

Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Football

Champions League too expensive, does not attract good audiences, difficult to schedule
Boxing

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Football

Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Football

The Infront agency has brought in $232 million (£126.6 million/ €182.4 million) from Latin America
Football

Brazil’s four biggest football clubs have refused to ratify a new television rights deal