North America

Football

Football: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired the rights for eight matches from this year’s Fifa World Cup in a deal with Prisa-owned pay-broadcaster Sogecable.
Football

The Brazilian agency Traffic says it can wait until the end of the year to sell Latin American rights for the Copa América.

Football

The Premier League is using a bid for its online clips rights that Google planned several years ago to attack the internet giant in court.

American Football

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

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

Timo Lumme and Michael Payne spoke to TV Sports Markets about NBC's delayed coverage strategy.
Athletics

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5
Badminton

Badminton: Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport acquired live and highlights rights for the semi-finals and finals of this month's European Men’s and Women’s Team Championship. Co
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
Athletics

Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.

Cricket

Global Cricket Ventures has acquired Indian Premier League US internet rights-holder Willow TV.

Cricket

“We want eyeballs and that's what matters to us foremost. You can't get bigger and better than our strategy. People all over the world ask me where can we watch IPL - now I can always say - you can watch it on You Tube." - Lalit Modi.

Football

Fox launches new football channel and buys out Setanta's US operation.
Golf

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB acquired the rights for the US PGA Tour in an eight-year deal from 2010 to 2017, paying an estimated $90m
Cricket

Cricket: Entertainment Sports & Direct acquired the theatrical rights for the Indian Premier League in a 10-year deal from 2010 to 2019, paying Rs3.3 bn ($70m)
Football

Indian broadcaster Zee is in the process of completing its takeover of Dubai-based sports broadcaster Ten Sports.
Football

Fox Sports International acquired English Premier League rights in the US and Latin America in deals worth some 50 per cent more than the value of the present deals.
Cricket

Football: Middle East pay-broadcaster Al Jazeera Sports acquired the rights for Euro 2012 and 2016 in a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, worth $100m (€67m) overall. Al