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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.

Football: Sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil acquired pay-television rights in Brazil for the 2010 World Cup in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster Globo

Football television rights values in the Netherlands are plunging, with pay-channel Sport1 succeeding in getting massive rights-fee reductions on key contracts.

The Singapore government is considering legislation to prevent further escalation in the cost of English Premier League football rights when they come on the market later this year.

Pan-regional broadcaster ESPN Star Sports increased rights fees five-fold to retain its hold on Formula One rights in Asia.

Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals

Sony is struggling to conclude sub-licensing deals for the cable and satellite rights for this year’s cricket World Cup in Asia outside India and Nepal.

The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia

Rights revenue increases 141 per cent on last round of Asian deals

Football: Five Italian Serie A clubs sold the rights for their remaining home games of the season to pay-operator Sky Italia in deals worth between €300,000 (£201,000) and €350,000 a match.  Th

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 

ESPN Star Sports is in the middle of tough negotiations with cable operators as it seeks to refund its huge outlay for English football’s Premier League.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

Cricket: Australian sports broad-caster Fox Sports acquired the rights for Australia’s next two tours to India, including the four Test series in October and the seven one-day internationals in 2009, i…

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.

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.