Indian Subcontinent

Row over Indian cricket board’s television rights took a further twist this week

Neo TV forced to share rights for India matches with Doordarshan

Indian Supreme Court’s ruling fiercely critical of board’s presidential elections

Zee commits to launch of Zee Sports

The government wants to introduce listed-events legislation

Low offer by state broadcaster

Doordarshan looks set to win the exclusive television rights for Pakistan cricket tour

Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.

Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN are hoping to make a big move into cricket in a bid to target a worldwide Asian audience.

The joint venture of Dentsu and Infront will be banking heavily on getting good revenue from China.

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Nimbus will pay $612

Proposal for alternative international-cricket schedule.

Ten Sports have 55-per-cent share of sports channel audience in cable and satellite homes.

Football: The German Football League awarded the rights for the Bundesliga in several three-year deals covering 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Australian, English, South African, New Zealand, Zimbabwean boards to benefit from new Asian television rights deals.

$612 million deal signed by the Nimbus Sport agency for worldwide television rights for cricket played in India is looking increasingly risky.