Indian Subcontinent

Basketball

Basketball: Pan-regional sports broadcaster ESPN International extended its deal with Euroleague Basketball in a one-season contract for the 2010-11 season
Football

Big increases in the US and Japan the highlights of a successful round of sales for Traffic Sports.
Rugby Union

Ambitious Eurosport and Setanta pushed ESS for pan-Asian rugby World Cup deal excluding key markets.
Athletics

Athletics: Channel 4, the UK commercial broadcaster, acquired the rights for the 2011 and 2013 World Championships in a three-year deal with the IEC in Sports agency
Football

Football: The Sportfive agency was appointed by Uefa as its exclusive media rights sales agency for Euro 2012 in a number of markets in Asia and Oceania
Cricket

The change poses a risk for ESPN Star Sports, which is concerned about the value of its billion-dollar deal with the ICC.
Cricket

Tiger comeback helps keep BBC on the fairway ... IMG banks on City growth ... Zee reworks cricket equation
Cricket

Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…
Cricket

Nimbus Communications believes launching its channel in new markets will be more lucrative than selling Indian cricket rights into those countries.
Rugby Union

Sky tempted by 2015 World Cup ... Neo turns down ESS for Sony ... Premier League drops Win TV.
Cricket

O'Brien comes out fighting over IPL ... Sportklub looks for elbow room ... Canal Plus to hold Wimbledon

Baseball

Asian Games: Indian cable and satellite broadcaster Zee acquired the cable and satellite rights for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou in a deal with the Dentsu agency
Football

Football: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) acquired the rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in six countries - Uzbekistan, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Timor Leste, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – in a deal w…
Football

TVE fights to keep hold of Masters ... Rally wants more UK exposure; Zee spree for Ten Action ... Lega looks for Coppa bidders.

Football

Sportfive, hit by recent rights and personnel losses, is set to regain its "calling card" in Asia.

Football

Football: Nepalese media buying agency Media Hub Private Limited acquired the rights in Nepal for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with ESPN Star Sports
Basketball

Basketball: Euroleague Basketball agreed deals in the UK, China and Iceland for the 2010 Final Four
Cricket

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 6