Indian Subcontinent
Court backs WSG on cricket sacking
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…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf, boxing and more
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…
Mid-East channel is more lucrative than selling rights
Carriage deal with ADD guarantees an immediate source of revenue and minimum fee per subscriber
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1:Olympics, football, squash and more
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.
Poor ad sales lead channels to drop coverage of Tests
West Indies-Sri Lanka test not broadcast in Asia
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, speedway, boxing and more
German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Five cricket deals cut out agencies. Is that a trend?
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.
Outright sale of TV rights ‘may lose cricket board £60m’
The Pakistan Cricket Board could miss out on $100 million of income by the outright sale of its television rights for five years.
Sony in need of more Asian deals
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.
Sony battles over Asian deals on cricket World Cup
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Euro and African football, tennis, cricket, basketball and golf
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…
Ten offers record fee – with security of matching rights
Asian cable and satellite broadcaster Ten Sports emerged as the clear favourite to win the worldwide television rights for Sri Lankan cricket.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, football, 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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1:Cricket, football and 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
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Rugby union, rowing, ice sports and more
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
BSkyB jumps gun in row over tour
Pakistani rights-holder, Ary Digital, annoyed with premature announcement of coverage
India heads list of cricket rights still to be awarded
Cricket involving India, rather than cricket in general, being seen as the key content
Doordarshan will have to make do with highlights
Second appeal to broadcast authority likely to be rejected