North America

Air Racing
Asia

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…
Ice Skating
Canada

Skate Canada becomes second national ice-skating body after the US to lose its domestic television rights fee

Cricket
Africa

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close
Football
Australia

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Cricket
Australia

India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week
Ice Hockey
Canada

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC could be squeezed out of sports broadcasting altogether.

Baseball
Argentina

The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007

Basketball
Asia

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011
Basketball
Africa

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 
American Football
Canada

Basketball: The US National Basketball Association signed deals for this season with 164 broadcasters covering 215 countries.

Cricket
Asia

Skiing: Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR acquired the rights for Swiss World Cup events in a four-year deal, 2007-08 to 2010-11, with the Swiss ski federation
Football
Central America

Italian football declining in popularity in the UK
Football
North America

Suspended Head of Television and Marketing back to work as Fifa continue restructuring
American Football
Asia

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…
Boxing
North America

One-sided, mismatched bouts damaging boxing's television audiences
Swimming
North America

Table tennis and swimming federations seek larger allocations, Summer federations push IOC to reduce USOC funding

American Football
Australia

Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m).  The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.

Ice Hockey
North America

The North American National Hockey League has effected a remarkable turnaround