Indian Subcontinent

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…

Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).

The Sportfive agency agreed a rights deal in Myanmar for this summer’s Uefa Euro 2012 football tournament with state-owned broadcaster S Media.

Indian pay-television distribution company TheOneAlliance terminated its agreement to distribute the Neo Sports pay-television channels, citing the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s cancellation l…

Pakistani public-service broadcaster PTV will launch a dedicated sports channel this month in a move it says is designed to encourage the country’s youngsters to take up sport, and which is also expected t…

Asian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports acquired rights in Pakistan for a package of International Cricket Council events in a four-year sublicensing deal with Pakistani state broadcaster PTV, from…

The Nimbus Communications agency said it had complied with the terms of its broadcast rights deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India and was focused on resolving its differences with the national…

The Board of Control for Cricket in India cancelled its broadcast rights partnership with Nimbus Communications after accusing the agency of failing to pay rights fees on time

World Series Hockey organisers postponed the start of the inaugural event until February 2012 after Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) president RK Shetty accused national governing body Hockey India of using…

Indian media company Bennett Coleman Group and sports and leisure management company Procam International launched a joint venture programming brand called R1, which will aim to transform the image of…

Golf: UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired exclusive rights for the 2011 Australian PGA Championship and 2011 Australian Open in a deal with the World Sport Group agency

Basketball: The MP & Silva agency brokered several deals for the Spanish league, the ACB, beginning this season

Mounting losses force major strategy change at Lagardère. Agency has 'changed its DNA'

Basketball: UK pay-television channel ESPN extended its rights for the Euroleague to cover the 2011-12 season in a deal with the league

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals in the US, Canada, selected territories in Asia and Australia for its events covering the period 2015 to 2022 (see story this issue).

Euro 2012 fee up in Australia but agency faces a challenge in remaining markets