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Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

BBC’s cricket bid hangs on Sky and Champions League T

Uefa is in talks with clubs, leagues and football associations about a possible overhaul of European club competitions.

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…

Commercial broadcaster pays €2 million per season for Euroleague rights

Greek football’s top professional football clubs are planning a return to collective selling of their commercial rights.

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…

Top-tier Greek football hopes play-offs will boost television rights revenue

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually

Grass is greener market-by-market for Wimbledon

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…

The decision of Greek league champions Olympiacos to sell its television rights to public-service broadcaster ERT has led to a radical re-alignment of the rights for the country’s top football league.

Greek monopoly pay-operator NetMed Hellas is facing a challenge from the launch of digital-terrestrial and internet television.

Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.

Basketball: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the rights to the 2009 and 2011 European Championships and the 2006 and 2010 World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball…

The Team Marketing agency has secured good increases in television-rights fees for the next round of Champions League deals