Indian Subcontinent

Football

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

Cricket

Rugby Union: Pay-broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for South Africa’s domestic Currie Cup competition and home Test matches outside the Tri-Nations tournament.

Tennis

Indian sports broadcaster Neo will pay a combined $130,000 (£66,000/ €88,000) a year in the two deals it signed this week for the Women’s Tennis Association Tour and Davis and Fed Cup tennis.
Cricket

Indian television advertising rates hit record high during World Twenty20 Championship final
American Football

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…
Football

Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).
Football

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…

Lack of national representation or medal hopes and rescheduling of events to suit US audiences hits Asian broadcasters' chances of recouping rights outlay

Air Racing

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…
Boxing

Commonwealth Games: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten and pay-operator Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Football

Ten Sports present position as India’s most-watched sports channel played a major role in its acquisition of the Indian sub-continent rights for the Champions League.

Cricket

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close
Cricket

A billion-dollar deal signed last weekend for the Indian cricket board’s new domestic Twenty20 tournament, the India Premier League, could mark a new commercial era for the sport

American Football

Boxing: German public-service broadcaster ARD acquired the rights for a minimum 12 fights a year from Sauerland Promotions in a four-year deal, 2008 to 2011, renewing a previous contract
Cricket

India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week
Basketball

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Cricket

Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets