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Pre-emptive offers from agencies "too good to turn down".

Basketball: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired a package of rights for the Euroleague in a four-year deal with the Asset Management agency covering the 2010-11 to 2013-14 seasons

Big increases in the US and Japan the highlights of a successful round of sales for Traffic Sports.

Canal Plus's one-time partner TP joins forces with TVN Group the day before Polish football league tender is released.

Boxing promoter Kalle Sauerland plans to launch a cruiserweight version of the Super Six tournament, despite big problems with the current super middleweight event.

Football: The MP & Silva agency extended its agreement with Arsenal Broadband Limited, the digital arm of English Premier League club Arsenal, for a further three years, covering the 2013-14 to 2015-16…

Football: Italian league body Lega Calcio agreed a number of rights deals covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons

Basketball: French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus extended its deal with the Euroleague for a further three years, from 2010-11 to 2012-13, paying €880,000 ($1.14m) per year.

American Football: UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 acquired the live rights to all of the NFL’s Sunday night games for the 2010 season.

Poland's friendly against Cameroon on August 11 faces a broadcast blackout unless public-service broadcaster TVP can agree a last-minute deal with the Sportfive agency.

Polsat and cable operator RCS-RDS have agreed three-year deals for the 2011 to 2013 seasons.

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…

Polsat launched a premium football channel last week as part of wider plans to grow its digital platform.

Intense competition between rival pay-television operators has resulted in a tripling of rights fees for Uefa’s Champions League in Poland.

Football: Spanish media group Prisa agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency for the exclusive pay-television rights of one La Liga match each week, to be shown on Prisa’s Canal Plus premium channel, and t…

The Premier League is set to stagger its next international rights sales process in a move that will rule out what was always a remote possibility of someone making a worldwide bid for the rights.