Latin America

Athletics

Olympics: The Asia-Pacific Broad-casting Union acquired the free-to-air terrestrial and radio rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics for $10m (£5.1m/€6.4m) in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 
Cricket

Olympics: Spanish media group Telefónica’s Latin American digital media arm Terra acquired the internet and mobile platform rights to the 2008 Olympic Games.

Cycling

Football: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the exclusive television rights in the Indian sub-continent for Fifa events in 2009 and 2010, including the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Football

Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Football

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Football

Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel
Football

Champions League too expensive, does not attract good audiences, difficult to schedule
Boxing

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Football

Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as the…
Hockey

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

Football

The Infront agency has brought in $232 million (£126.6 million/ €182.4 million) from Latin America
Football

Brazil’s four biggest football clubs have refused to ratify a new television rights deal
Football

The Clube dos 13, the body that organises Brazil’s top football championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro, has entered into a partnership with the Brazilian government
Basketball

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Air Racing

Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service.