Indian Subcontinent

Cricket

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

Basketball

Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
Cricket

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

Football

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

The television-rights deal between pan-Asian cable and satellite channel Ten Sports and the Sri Lankan cricket board is under threat after a court ruled that the board’s termination of a previous deal, w…
Boxing

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

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

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.
Cricket

West Indies-Sri Lanka test not broadcast in Asia
Boxing

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

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

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

Sony is struggling to conclude sub-licensing deals for the cable and satellite rights for this year’s cricket World Cup in Asia outside India and Nepal.
Cricket

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

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

Asian cable and satellite broadcaster Ten Sports emerged as the clear favourite to win the worldwide television rights for Sri Lankan cricket.

Cricket

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

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