Japan

·   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

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

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).

Top value Serie A rights sold in one-year deals - total rights fee looks set to fall

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

Sportfive fights off strong competition to win international rights for 2008-09 to 2009-10

Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…