South-East Asia

Basketball
Brazil

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m). 
Basketball
Asia

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).

Badminton
Asia

World Wrestling Entertainment takes its Asian television rights sales in-house
Football
Asia

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 
Football
Asia

Sportfive has agreed deals in key South East Asian markets, including Malaysia and Indonesia
Football
Africa

Asian fees alone likely to exceed £40 million
Cricket
Malaysia

NEWS IN BRIEF
Football
Asia

Singapore, Malaysia and the Indian sub-continent and likely to be the next Asian territories to sign television rights deals for football’s World Cup

Football
Africa

Football: Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal worth €10m (£7m). 
Football
Argentina

Football: France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel agreed new deals for top-tier Ligue 1.

Football
Asia

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

American Football
Africa

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…
Football
Africa

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football
Africa

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Asia

Lack of national representation or medal hopes and rescheduling of events to suit US audiences hits Asian broadcasters' chances of recouping rights outlay

Football
Asia

SingTel plans to launch a pay-television service at the end of the year.

Cricket
Asia

Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets
Basketball
Asia

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011