Indian Subcontinent

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has won the rights for cricket’s next two World Cups.

ESPN Star Sports won the Premier League rights in the Indian sub-continent by a large margin.

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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: 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.