Europe

Athletics
Australia

Cricket: Asian pay-broadcaster Zee Sports acquired the Indian cable and satellite rights to India’s three-Test series against Sri Lanka in a deal with the newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India

Football
France

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the exclusive live rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a four-year deal from 2006-07 to 2009-10

Football
Europe

Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable strengthened its grip on the rights for Spanish domestic football
Football
Europe

Important questions remain about the constitution of the Premier League’s television-rights packages
Skiing
Europe

Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity
Football
Europe

German pay-operator Premiere will launch a free-to-air channel only if it wins the main free-to-air highlights rights for the Bundesliga
Football
Europe

the German football league is thought likely to win a big increase in rights fees for the live Bundesliga rights

Football
Europe

Rai backs up its claim that it struck an in-principle deal with the league
Football
Europe

Rai has made an astonishing attack on the integrity of the Italian football league and its president, Adriano Galliani
American Football
Canada

Basketball: The US National Basketball Association signed deals for this season with 164 broadcasters covering 215 countries.

Football
Australia

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

Football
Europe

The Swiss football league is hoping to replicate the success of some of its European neighbours
Football
Europe

The Sportfive agency has begun talks in Italy for the television rights for football’s Euro 2008
Football
Europe

Canal Plus’s successful legal challenge against the award of the French League Cup rights to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions could backfire
Football
Europe

Sogecable is likely to keep its stranglehold on Primera Liga pay-television rights in new deals next summer
Football
Europe

Premier League Offering
Football
Europe

The English Premier League is almost certain to bring in more money from its next round of domestic rights sales
Europe

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall