Oceania

Golf

Network Ten the only free-to-air bidder for 2007 US Masters
Cricket

sale of the Australian free-to-air rights for this summer’s England v Australia Ashes cricket series is a blow to pay-broadcaster Fox Sports

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Australian Rules Football

Australia’s television networks are gearing up for the first of several fierce rights battles

Football

Football: Russia’s Premier League is set to sign a three-year deal worth $17m (£9m/€13m) a season for its rights from the 2005 season with the Fedcom-media agency

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.  De
Australian Rules Football

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Athletics

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.

Darts

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.

Football

Analysts claim that Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten overpaid for Australian Football League rights

Cricket

Australian, English, South African, New Zealand, Zimbabwean boards to benefit from new Asian television rights deals.

Football

Fifa agreed to sell World Cup rights for 2010 and 2014 to Australian public-service broadcaster SBS for only two-thirds the amount it could have got.

Football

Football’s governing body in Australia hopes to increase television-rights revenue for national team’s matches