Brazil

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
Football

The Clube dos 13, the body that organises Brazil’s top football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, has entered into a partnership with the Brazilian government
Basketball

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Air Racing

Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service. 
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
Football

The Brazilian government has found that the existing system of selling the television rights for the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, is anti-competitive
Football

Biggest rival, Record, willing to pay more than €194 million per season
Football

Olympics: New Zealand pay-broadcaster Sky Television and its free-to-air arm Prime acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a $10.5m (£5.1m/€7.2m) deal with the International Olympic Committee.