Middle East
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The court date set for this month that was to rule, once and for all, on the ownership of television rights to Spain’s football Liga has been postponed by at least six months, to next June or July.
TV Rights Deals 2: Athletics, women’s British Open and more
TV Rights Deals 1: Football World Cup, Brazil and more
Football: The African Union of Broadcasters signed a deal with Fifa for the English, French and Portuguese-language television and radio rights to the 2010 World Cup.
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Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.
TV RIGHTS DEALS 1: Greece, Israel, World Cup Qualifiers and more
UAE league goes local in ART blow
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics, athletics, MotoGP, golf and more
Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Uefa club football, wrestling, cycling and golf
Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.
New challenge to non-compete pact
A new potential bidder for the Middle East rights for Wimbledon and Australian Open tennis emerged last week.
News in brief
Football fans in the Middle East have had a battle to access Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of Euro 2008.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, tennis and more
Windfall for Ten as Pakistan and India play cricket
Indian government approves Pakistan cricket matches, Ten looking at as much as $18m ad revenue
Sogecable takes over funding of Euro-basketball
Premier League sets ball rolling for tough Asian battle
Al-Jazeera wins first sports rights, with more to come
Mid-East channel is more lucrative than selling rights
Sports channel, by Al-Jazeera
Badminton claims new strategy increases TV fees
The international badminton federation said this week that it has brought in higher television-rights fees and better worldwide exposure for its top events this year.