New Zealand

Rugby League

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

Golf

Golf: US broadcaster America One Television acquired the rights for the OneAsia Series in a three-year deal, from 2010 to 2012, brokered by the World Sport Group agency
American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
Football

Football: Maltese cable operator Melita acquired live pay-television rights for all 64 matches of the 2010 World Cup in a sub-licensing deal with public service broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services

A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.

Rugby Union

New Zealand government part-funds three-broadcaster deal.

American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013

TVNZ’s deal for next year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi has become a high-profile victim to the deteriorating economic climate.
American Football

American Football: US television network NBC extended its deal for National Football League (NFL) matches until 2013 in a two-year deal, paying an estimated two-per-cent annual increase on its existing…
Badminton

Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.
Athletics

New domestic deals for two of Europe’s top five football leagues accounted for two of the three biggest television rights contracts signed in 2008.

Rugby Union

UK pay-operator BSkyB’s new five-year deal with the Rugby Football Union was a classic smash-and-grab move that will strengthen its position in the ongoing negotiations for English rugby union’s top-tier domestic league.

Boxing

Fast Track is facing tough talks with broadcasters for the 2010 Commonwealth Games rights

Football

Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12

The phenomenal television-ratings success of last month’s Beijing Olympics will add considerable momentum to the International Olympic Committee’s broadcast rights negotiations in Europe and the US for the 2014 and 2016 Games.

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. 
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the rights for German national team-matches and first-pick matches of the DFB Cup knockout competition in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to…
Cricket

The New Zealand cricket board has renewed a television-rights deal with the country’s pay-operator Sky Television for five years, from 2004-05 to 2008-09.