Oceania

Football

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.

Basketball

Cricket: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the exclusive rights for the India Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 competition set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a five-year deal…
Football

Olympics: New Zealand pay-broadcaster Sky Television and its free-to-air arm Prime acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a $10.5m (£5.1m/€7.2m) deal with the International Olympic Committee.
Football

Australian football’s national governing body has come under criticism for going for cash rather than television visibility in selling rights for Australian football.

Cricket

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.

Football

Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.

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.

Football

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Cricket

Future of sport on New Zealand public service television in doubt after TVNZ loses Olympics to Sky Television and Prime
Athletics

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

Basketball

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

Football

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 
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.

Cricket

Availability of Australian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, New Zealand, West Indies players in doubt due to clashes with scheduled tours
Football

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

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.