Indian Subcontinent

Basketball
Asia

Bobsleigh/Skeleton: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for the men’s and women’s bobsleigh and skeleton World Cups and World Championships for the three years from 2006-07 to …
Cricket
Asia

The ICC is struggling to generate the same intensity of bidding for its television rights as that seen for Indian cricket earlier this year.

Cricket
Asia

The Bangladesh Cricket Control Board looks as if it might be scaring off potential bidders with an overly ambitious tender.

Cricket
Asia

Availability of Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, West Indies players in doubt due to clashes with scheduled tours
Cricket
Asia

Legal challenges, ICC appeal, approach to rivals to share coverage - all fail for broadcaster blacklisted by state
Cricket
Europe

Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.

Cricket
Asia

Satellite broadcaster unable to exploit India-Pakistan cricket tour rights as political turmoil leads to television signals being switched off
American Football
Asia

American Football:  UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the UK and Ireland rights for the National Football League in a four-year deal from 2007-08 to 2010-11.

Cricket
Middle East

Pakistan cable and satellite broadcaster Geo TV will launch a sports channel in time to show cricket’s Champions Trophy.

Cricket
Asia

The ICC is expecting fees of up to $1 billion (£535 million/€790 million) for its next television and new-media rights deal.

Football
Asia

Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.

Cricket
Asia

The deal agreed by Star Television to distribute the sports channels of the Nimbus agency could herald the death of ESPN Star Sports.

Cricket
Asia

The Board of Control for Cricket in India hopes that the sale of its worldwide mobile rights will land it another financial windfall.

Badminton
Asia

World Wrestling Entertainment takes its Asian television rights sales in-house
Basketball
Asia

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…
Football
Asia

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 
Football
Asia

The 2006 football World Cup attracted average audiences in India of 976,000 viewers per match.

Football
Asia

Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian sub-continent and likely to be the next Asian territories to sign television rights deals for football’s World Cup