Germany

Football
Asia

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
Handball
Denmark

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
Europe

German pay-broadcaster Premiere is understood to be in talks to take over the free-to-air sports channel Deutsches Sport-Fernsehen (DSF)
Europe

attack on the way that public-service broadcasters in Germany acquire and use sports rights could be the first salvo in a wider ranging attempt to crack down on public-service broadcasters
Asia

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Football
Europe

Concerns that the commission will try to interfere too much in national market.
Europe

The European Commission last week accused German public-service broadcasters of a series of irregularities
Baseball
France

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.
Europe

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

Boxing
Germany

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.
Europe

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

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
Europe

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

Football
Europe

Wide-ranging distribution deal agreed with Unity Media

Football
Europe

Premiere dependent on money raised by flotation

Baseball
Asia

Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.
Football
Australia

·   Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.  De
Football
Europe

French football’s Ligue 1 rights the most expensive in the world