North America

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, is on course to bring in about £51 million for the 2008 European Championship outside Europe.

Bobsleigh/skeleton

Football: The English Premier League signed deals in Asia, Australia and North America for its live rights for the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Football

The Fox Soccer Channel and pay-operator Setanta acquired the Premier League rights in the USA for $57 million.

Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations has bought time on the NBC network in order to get free-to-air coverage in the United States of its flagship World Championships.

Cricket

The ICC is struggling to generate the same intensity of bidding for its television rights as that seen for Indian cricket earlier this year.

Senior executives in the television and sports sectors fear that the decision to change the event schedule of the 2008 Olympics to benefit NBC will undermine the value of Olympic TV contracts.

Australian Rules Football

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.

Football

Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m
Football

Legislation requires collective selling of Italian football rights, possibly in breach of EU competition law
Boxing

Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …
Football

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

Football

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

Basketball

Olympics: Australia’s Nine Network and pay-platform Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a deal worth A$126m (£55m/€79m) with the International Olympic Committee.  In
American Football

Cricket: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired the rights to this month's Champions Trophy and the 2007 World Cup in a deal with News Corporation subsidiary Global Cricket Corporation.

Football

Football: Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal with the Sportfive agency.

Boxing

Boxing website SecondsOut.com is close to tying up rights deals with top US and European promoters to show fights on internet pay-per-view.

Football

Major League Soccer will bring in rights fees of about $18.5 million a year from next season, an indication of television’s growing faith in the sport.

Football

·   Football: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC acquired the rights for all Fifa events for the eight-year period from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.