North America

Basketball

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

Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.

Football

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.

Football

International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.

Basketball

Football: Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP acquired the rights to the national team’s Euro 2008 home qualifiers and friendlies in a two-year deal, 2006-07 to 2007-08, with the Olivedesportos agency

Australian Rules Football

Olympics: Korean free-to-air broadcaster SBS acquired the rights for four Olympic Games from 2010 to 2016.

Football

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

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…
American Football

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.

Cycling

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

Football

Asian fees alone likely to exceed £40 million
Boxing

Ice Skating: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for the World and European Championships and other events in a four-year deal with the International Skating Union, the sport's world governing…

Private-equity company Bridgepoint Capital might well have overpaid for Dorna Sports, the commercial rights owner of motorcycling’s MotoGP world championship.

There is growing pessimism and anger among broadcasters that the IOC will give in to the demands of US network NBC.

American Football

Television audiences for America football’s Super Bowl last weekend increased significantly on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ice Skating

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase
American Football

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…
Football

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