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Football: France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel agreed new deals for top-tier Ligue 1.

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

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 acquired the free-to-air Champions League rights for a further three-years, from 2006-07 to 2008-09

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: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).  TVP

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.