Russia

Italian football declining in popularity in the UK

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…

Formula One Management is in talks with three Russian broadcasters

The A1 Grand Prix organisers were this week finalising last-minute television deals

The Sportfive agency is to sue Russian commercial broadcaster 7TV over a string of allegedly unpaid rights fees

Brazilian and Argentinian world tour friendly matches sold to Japan Sports Marketing

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD/ZDF acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches of the 2014 World Cup from Fifa, football’s world governing body. 

Government intervention to force free-to-air coverage

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.

Russian state broadcaster RTR acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup

Cricket:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan was awarded the domestic rights to the upcoming India v Pakistan series by the Madras High Court, which was ruling on the case brought by Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms.

A civil war between two powerful factions in Russian football’s Premier League could threaten the league’s television-rights deals.

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

RTR is the big loser in the latest round of television deals

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

Russian football’s Premier League is to sell its domestic television rights in a deal representing a 300-per-cent increase