Eastern Europe

Boxing website SecondsOut.com is close to tying up rights deals with top US and European promoters to show fights on internet pay-per-view.

Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.

·   Football: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC acquired the rights for all Fifa events for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. 

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).

Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.

Olympics: Korean free-to-air broadcaster SBS acquired the rights for four Olympic Games from 2010 to 2016.

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Audience of 230 million in Europe

Football: France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel agreed new deals for top-tier Ligue 1.

European rights fees for Euro 2008 reach same level as those paid for 2006 World Cup

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover

A sublicensing deal between Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat and public-service broadcaster TVP over Euro 2008 rights is in danger of falling through

Polish football’s top-tier domestic league, the Ekstraklasa, signed the country’s largest-ever sports-rights deal last week

Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).

Romanian public-service broadcaster extends deal for Formula One rights for a further three years - 2008 to 2010