Europe

Football

Average audiences fall marginally for both BBC and BSkyB
Rugby Union

France Télévisions' Heineken Cup audiences still show promise
Skiing

German ski association's rights fee income falls amid general decline in interest in skiing's big markets
Football

Belgian FA accepts offer for rights lower than bid rejected last year

Multi-channel coverage finally begins, five races into the season
American Football

Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m).  The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.

Basketball

Football: US Disney-owned broad-casters ABC and ESPN, and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, acquired the rights to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in deals worth a total of $425m (£239m/€351m).

Football

federation agreed a deal for the cup rights with pay-television operator Digitürk
Football

Major rights to be put on the negotiating table

Spanish five sports-rights contenders
Football

The Bundesliga has created a complex request for tenders offering 233 options over 150 pages

Pay-operator Premiere, which plans to operate a free-to-air channel, says that it will most likely start its own channel from scratch
Football

German football’s Bundesliga has created a television-rights tender-offer in such a way that it will reach its target of €400-million-a-year

The launch next Monday by pay-broadcaster Sogecable of Spain’s fifth major free-to-air channel will create another crack in what has been one of Europe’s toughest markets
Basketball

Basketball: Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live rights for the Euroleague in a three-year deal, from 2005-06 to 2007-08, with the Bonivest agency, which brokered the deal on behalf of Euroleague Basketball.

Cricket

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

Football

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has threatened to reduce its payment for Serie A highlights
Football

Talks over a 2006 World Cup deal in Poland remain stalled over Infront’s €20 million (£13.7 million) asking price