Oceania

The rugby World Cup and the cricket World Cup account for 11 of the Top 20 most popular televised sports events on Australian television in 2003

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals

A show of sporting solidarity by world's top squash players saved this year's event, after prize money fell to half last year's level

Not enough free-to-air coverage could result in delisting pushed for by Foxtel

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-viewā€¦

The performance of Australiaā€™s national football team will be a key factor in determining whether the resurgence of Soccer Australia.

David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennisā€™s Masters series this year.

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a ā‚¬52m (Ā£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors Soā€¦

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the rights for German national team-matches and first-pick matches of the DFB Cup knockout competition in a three-year deal from 2009-10 toā€¦

Men's and women's national team, national underage teams, and domestic league rights on market

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Football: Five Italian Serie A clubs sold the rights for their remaining home games of the season to pay-operator Sky Italia in deals worth between ā‚¬300,000 (Ā£201,000) and ā‚¬350,000 a match.Ā  Th

Football: English footballā€™s Premier League began the sales for its next round of international television rights, covering the three-year period from 2004-05 to 2006-07).Ā 

Football:Ā Irish pay-per-view broad-caster Setanta signed a four-year, Ā£35m (ā‚¬52m) deal with the Scottish Premier League.Ā  The deal will run from 2004-05 to 2007-08.Ā  Se

Second appeal to broadcast authority likely to be rejected

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as theā€¦