India

Baseball

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Cricket

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, is on course to bring in about £51 million for the 2008 European Championship outside Europe.

Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has won the rights for cricket’s next two World Cups.

Football

ESPN Star Sports won the Premier League rights in the Indian sub-continent by a large margin.

Basketball

Bobsleigh/Skeleton: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for the men’s and women’s bobsleigh and skeleton World Cups and World Championships for the three years from 2006-07 to …
Cricket

The ICC is struggling to generate the same intensity of bidding for its television rights as that seen for Indian cricket earlier this year.

Cricket

Availability of Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, West Indies players in doubt due to clashes with scheduled tours
Cricket

Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.

Cricket

The ICC is expecting fees of up to $1 billion (£535 million/€790 million) for its next television and new-media rights deal.

Football

Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.

Cricket

The deal agreed by Star Television to distribute the sports channels of the Nimbus agency could herald the death of ESPN Star Sports.

Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India hopes that the sale of its worldwide mobile rights will land it another financial windfall.

Badminton

World Wrestling Entertainment takes its Asian television rights sales in-house
Basketball

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 €…
Football

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 
Football

The 2006 football World Cup attracted average audiences in India of 976,000 viewers per match.

Football

Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian sub-continent and likely to be the next Asian territories to sign television rights deals for football’s World Cup