Oceania
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, cricket, handball, tennis, golf and more
American Football: UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the UK and Ireland rights for the National Football League in a four-year deal from 2007-08 to 2010-11.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Boxing, basketball, winter sports and more
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).
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Serie B, Spanish, Champions League 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.
Double win for ESPN in Australia
ESPN Australia consolidated its position in the country’s pay-television market by outbidding Fox Sports for European rugby union’s Heineken Cup rights.
Reports from Sportel Monaco 2007
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Six Nations, Formula One, golf, basketball, cricket
Viewers flock to rugby World Cup, but not England
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice skating, ice hockey, boxing, futsal and more
WSG on course for big total after flying start for IPL
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro 2008 host country deal and other football
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Athletics, cricket, hockey, boxing and NFL
Ad growth drives new media
English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, Fifa, Italian, Brazilian, English football
Sunday advertising all blacked out
TV to score rugby windfall
Advertisers keen on rugby as it attracts affluent males
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Commonwealth Games, cricket, NHL and more
Commonwealth Games: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten and pay-operator Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
How World Cup smashed viewing records in Europe
Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.