Russia

Basketball

7TV, one of Russia’s two big terrestrial sports channels and the only major channel still privately-owned, is undergoing a major restructuring to survive.

Football

Russian football’s Premier League is asking for $15 million
Basketball

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Athletics

Football dominates European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets survey for March.
Cricket

Cricket:  The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.

Football

Russian television has finally started showing this season’s English Premier League
Football

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to
Cricket

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.

Football

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Football

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

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
Athletics

The European Athletics Championships will need to get good ratings if the European Athletics Association is to get an increase in television rights fees.

Athletics

Audience of 230 million in Europe

Boxing

Seven senior executives have left since the Lagardère takeover
Football

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Badminton

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…
Football

The row between the Russian Premier League and the Fedcom Media agency over the league’s television and marketing rights will end up in court.

Golf

Grass is greener market-by-market for Wimbledon