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Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m

If continued for three years, one-year deals agreed so far with terrestrial broadcasters would leave agency with $4 million loss

Sportfive snatches Latin American continental club football competitions in a one-year deal

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m). 

·   Football: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC acquired the rights for all Fifa events for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. 

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.

Japanese professional football’s J-League has agreed a new television-rights deal with a new broadcaster.

International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.

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 €…

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

Sportfive has agreed deals in key South East Asian markets, including Malaysia and Indonesia

Football: Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal worth €10m (£7m). 

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase

Agency is close to deals for basketball and motorsport, plans aggressive bids for French and German football