North America

Football

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Football

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Air Racing

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

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

Cricket

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

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

Cricket

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

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

Baseball

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

Basketball

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

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

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

Cricket

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

Italian football declining in popularity in the UK
Football

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

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

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