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Football

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

Football

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
Badminton

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…
Football

Several deals for English Premier League rights imminent

Latest deal, with South Africa's SABC for 2010 and 2012 Olympics, worth $18 million
Athletics

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008
Basketball

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011
Golf

Falling ratings, bad timezone, no Japanese stars lead to no interest in US PGA Championship among Japanese broadcasters

Consortium of Japanese broadcasters unwilling to pay more for loss-making content

Japan’s five main commercial broadcasters have agreed to pay a bigger share of the country’s television rights fees for the winter Olympics
Cricket

Ice hockey: Nordic pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live pay-television and pay-per-view rights for the Swedish Elitserien, the country’s top-tier league, from the Svenska Hockeyligan in a four-year deal, 2006-07 to 2009-10

American Football

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…
Football

Football: Pay-operator Premiere acquired the Austrian pay-television rights for the top two domestic leagues, the Bundesliga and the Zac Erste division, in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Football

Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi is being asked to pay at least twice as much to extend its present deal for the rights for the Asian Football Confederation
Football

Brazilian and Argentinian world tour friendly matches sold to Japan Sports Marketing
Football

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group

The International Olympic Committee has enraged broadcasters worldwide by considering extensive changes to the scheduling of events at the Beijing Olympics.

Cricket

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.