Middle East

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m

Pakistan cable and satellite broadcaster Geo TV will launch a sports channel in time to show cricket’s Champions Trophy.

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).

Football: The threatened delay to the start of the Serie B season in Italy was averted when Rupert Murdoch’s satellite platform, Sky Italia, signed a last-minute, one-season deal to broadcast all Serie B matches live.

A bidding war between Arab Radio and Television and Orbit has resulted in an eight-fold increase in television rights fees for Saudi Arabia’s domestic football league.

African football revenue sharing, Digitürk spoiler, legal challenge to funding of Brazil's Record, CSI drops cricket commission rate

Nordic alliances, Royal League dead, bid for Israel's Sports Channel, Record Canadian Audiences for English Premier League

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

The Israeli Football Association generated a good increase in television-rights fees for the domestic football league.

Rights-seller Pitch International would prefer to see the match go untelevised rather than set a “dangerous precedent” of accepting a poor offer

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…

Platform-specific packages aimed at pitting broadcasters against mobile and internet operators for new media rights

Middle-East pay-broadcaster on course to break-even after adding 35,000 new subscribers in a month

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