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Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa

Danish football clubs will thank the country’s competition authority after its intervention led directly to the signing of new television rights deals

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons

Danish state-owned broadcasters Danmarks Radio and TV2 this week completed an extensive swap of handball rights

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Denmark’s state-owned commercial broadcaster TV2 is thought likely to launch a dedicated sports channel next year

Football: Spanish pay-television broadcaster Sogecable acquired the pay-rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from the 2006-07 to 2008-09 with the Team agency

Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element

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…

EBU membership threatened and other Scandinavian public service broadcasters angered by cost-cutting measures

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).