Europe

Basketball

League's first nationwide deal in Greece

Antena 3 is making a big push to buy sports rights

RTL said this week that it needs to acquire major sports rights

Boxing

Asian Games:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan acquired the exclusive rights in India for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, paying $400,000 (£215,000/€313,000), an increase of $50,000 on what it paid for the previous Games.

Football

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Football

The importance of choosing the right time and place for rights negotiations
Football

RTR is the big loser in the latest round of television deals

Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters

Haim Saban is in advanced talks to sell his majority stake to the Axel Springer publishing group.
Basketball

Golf: US network NBC signed a six-year extension to its deal with the US Golf Association which gives it the live rights for the US Open, one of golf’s four Majors.

Football

Football: Russia’s Premier League is set to sign a three-year deal worth $17m (£9m/€13m) a season for its rights from the 2005 season with the Fedcom-media agency

Football

Disputes over income from digital-terrestrial and other media rights cause tension amongst the clubs.
Football

Russian football’s Premier League is to sell its domestic television rights in a deal representing a 300-per-cent increase
Football

The Spanish football federation is considering launching its own television channel
Horse Racing

Racing UK is considering offering live coverage to mobile operators and broadband internet betting websites
Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 wants to renegotiate its highlights deal with the French football league
Football

German football league to block plan by Deutsche Telekom to use Bundesliga internet rights.

Football

English football’s Premier League has split its non-live coverage rights into five packages.