India

Cycling
Asia

Football: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the exclusive television rights in the Indian sub-continent for Fifa events in 2009 and 2010, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Basketball
Asia

Basketball: German commercial broadcaster DSF acquired the live, delayed and highlights rights for the 2009 and 2011 FIBA European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship from the Fédération Internationale de Basketball.

Cricket
Asia

The final of cricket’s inaugural India Premier League Twenty20 competition attracted the highest sports audience of the year in India.

Cricket
Asia

Indian government approves Pakistan cricket matches, Ten looking at as much as $18m ad revenue

Football
Asia

Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A
Boxing
Asia

The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…
Cricket
Asia

Carriage deal with ADD guarantees an immediate source of revenue and minimum fee per subscriber
Cycling
Asia

AOL Time Warner pulled out of the bidding for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games because, it said, it could not meet the International Olympic Committee’s tender requirements.
Boxing
Asia

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Cricket
Asia

This month’s deal between the Pakistan cricket board and broadcasters Ten Sports and ARY Digital is the latest example of cricket boards abandoning traditional sports rights agencies.
Cricket
Europe

The Pakistan Cricket Board could miss out on $100 million of income by the outright sale of its television rights for five years.
Cricket
Asia

Sony Entertainment Television is in dispute with rights agency Global Cricket Corporation over the exclusivity of its Asian rights deal for the 2003 and 2007 cricket World Cups.
Basketball
France

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Cricket
Asia

Olympics: The European Broad-casting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters, acquired the rights to the Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Summer Games in 2012.

Baseball
Armenia

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India
Cricket
Asia

Rugby Union:  The BBC extended its deal for rugby union’s Six Nations Championship for a further four years, from 2006 to 2009.  The deal includes radio, television and internet rights.  T
Cricket
Asia

Cricket involving India, rather than cricket in general, being seen as the key content
Cricket
India

Second appeal to broadcast authority likely to be rejected