Indian Subcontinent

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 

Football:  German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for a package of seven or eight Sunday matches from the 2006 World Cup from agency Infront Sports & Media.

Television rights for Asian cricket have traditionally been among the most competed-for in the world.

Football’s ongoing European Championships may be attracting huge television audiences across Europe but in some of the poorer Asian markets it is not being shown at all.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

The legal and administrative chaos surrounding the Board of Control for Cricket in India will almost certainly cost it millions of dollars

Cricket:  The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.

Cricket: Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms made a $308m (£174m/ €257m) bid for the worldwide television rights to Indian cricket for four years, from October 2004 to September 2008.

The sale of Indian cricket television rights for the next four years will be the most valuable cricket deal agreed by a national cricket board

Cricket: Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan agreed a deal for the terrestrial rights for select matches from International Cricket Council tournaments up until 2007, including 19 matches from the 2007 World Cup and nine from the Champions Trophy this year and in 2006

Jagmohan Dalmiya, controversial president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, surprised would-be bidders for the television rights to Indian cricket by setting a seven-day deadline to submit offers.

Asian broadcaster Ten Sports is to acquire the rights for Sri Lankan cricket

Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, said that Fifa may take the selling of television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in-house.

Can television audiences for cricket’s new India Premier League Twenty20 competition be sustained?

Cricket: Australian sports broad-caster Fox Sports acquired the rights for Australia’s next two tours to India, including the four Test series in October and the seven one-day internationals in 2009, i…

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF