France

Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey: Regional sports channel Fox Sports Florida agreed a multi-year extension to its rights agreement with the NHL’s Florida Panthers. The new deal begins in the 2012-13 season.
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, completed its Champions League rights process in Brazil by renewing deals with pay-television operator ESPN and free-to-air sports broadcaster Esporte I…
Football

The English Football Association is set to continue its round of international rights sales for 2008-12
Basketball

Action Sports: Apparent Gravity Media, the US-based distributor of action sports and motorsports, agreed a number of deals for the Dew Action Sports Tour and the AMA Motocross Championship series
Football

Al Jazeera to go it alone in Brazil with Ligue 1...Zebini to lead Fox in Brazil...TyC makes up with federation

Football

Uefa ponders radical overhaul to Euro 2016 qualifying system
Skiing

EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires
American Football

American Football: Indian broadcaster Ten Sports, owned by pay-television operator Zee, acquired the rights to the Elite Football League of India in a multi-year deal
Athletics

Athletics: The International Association of Athletics Federations secured deals for the 2011 World Championships and other events in the Netherlands, Iceland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Albania, Croatia…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed free-to-air rights deals in Portugal for Euro 2012 with public-service broadcaster RTP and commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI.
Football

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

Athletics

F1 teams seem happy to take Sky money as BBC slashes costs...Big C4 bid confirms the return to the market of a major player

Football

MP & Silva set for long rally with Spanish broadcasters

Athletics

IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain
Athletics

Athletics: Sports broadcaster Eurosport acquired pan-European rights for the International Association of Athletics Federations’ 2011 and 2013 World Championships.
Football

Football: Benfica TV, the club channel of Portuguese Liga club Benfica, acquired rights for 180 matches featuring a range of clubs and national teams taking place between now and December 2011
Snooker

Olympic Games: The International Olympic Committee agreed media-rights deals in France, Germany and Korea for the Olympic Games (see story this issue)
Football

Football: Korean media group SBS acquired the rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in a deal worth between $180m (€124m) and $200m (see story this issue).