China

Football
Africa

The Mediapro agency is set to sell the Asian rights for Spanish football’s La Liga directly to broadcasters across the region after failing to find an agency buyer.
Athletics
Asia

Recent football and athletics rights deals in China show that opportunities are beginning to open up for sports rights holders in a country where it has been notoriously difficult to achieve ‘proper’ market value for rights.
American Football
Asia

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Football
Asia

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT, commercial broadcaster Mega and triple-play operator On Telecoms acquired packages of Champions League rights for the three-year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Football
Asia

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
Asia

Pan-regional broadcaster ESPN Star Sports increased rights fees five-fold to retain its hold on Formula One rights in Asia.

Boxing
China

UK pay-operator Setanta looks to hit ambitious subscriber targets.
China

The phenomenal television-ratings success of last month’s Beijing Olympics will add considerable momentum to the International Olympic Committee’s broadcast rights negotiations in Europe and the US for the 2014 and 2016 Games.
Austria

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.
Football
China

WinTV in losing battle to convert China to pay-TV
Athletics
Africa

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

Football
Asia

Rivals fear Silva in front of queue for Serie A rights.
Asia

CCTV’s deal with internet portal Sohu.com for the Beijing Olympics online rights brings to an end a long internal debate.

Football
Asia

Asian TV gears up for World Cup war with agencies
Football
Asia

Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A
Football
Africa

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Asia

The value of the Spanish league’s international rights for the three years starting this season has increased on the last, thanks to the big-player signings made by Real Madrid (Zidane, Figo and Beckham) a…
Australian Rules Football
Asia

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…