Middle East

Handball: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish men’s and women’s national teams and leagues in a four-year deal, from 2011-12 to 2014-15, with the rights-holders, the Dan…

Production gaffes and inconsistencies tackled at Monaco meeting of meets, IMG and IAAF.

First serious UK rights battle between ESPN and BSkyB.

Big increases in the US and Japan the highlights of a successful round of sales for Traffic Sports.

Basketball: Rights agency MP & Silva sold rights to the Spanish professional basketball league, the ACB, to Italian pay-television platform Dahlia TV and French pay-television operator Canal Plus covering…

Sales of Uefa Champions League and Europa League rights will kick off in October, in Latin America and the Middle East, followed by Italy.

Tiger comeback helps keep BBC on the fairway ... IMG banks on City growth ... Zee reworks cricket equation

Football: Pan-African broadcaster Supersport acquired the Nigerian rights for the English Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2010-11 to 2012-13, worth $110m (€85m).

Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…

Kentaro says good viewer figures and ppv revenues for inaugural series are encouraging expansion plans.

MUTV's commercial director says the Premier League club is still committed to collective selling.

Sportfive, hit by recent rights and personnel losses, is set to regain its "calling card" in Asia.

Athletics: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the exclusive live television and internet rights for the Diamond League in a five-year deal brokered by the IMG agency

Basketball: Euroleague Basketball agreed deals in the UK, China and Iceland for the 2010 Final Four

Bigger inventory, improved format and market-by-market approach give Sanzar healthy increases in three home markets

News round-up, Volume 14, Issue 7