South-East 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

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

Cricket

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

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
Basketball

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Public service broadcaster PTNI still owes IOC money from Sydney Olympics
Football

I-Cable pays out to keep crucial content as battle with PCCW continues
Cricket

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

Cricket

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Cricket

Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Football

The English Premier League looks set to boost the sale of its international rights in Asia.

Cricket

Football:  Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia acquired the pay-television rights to all 64 matches of the 2006 World Cup, 39 of which it will show exclusively, in a deal with the Infront agency.  Sky is paying an estimated €40m (£27.3m) for the rights.  The deal also includes the rights to this year’s Fifa Confederations Cup, the Fifa World Youth Championships and the 16 26-minute preview programmes produced by Infront (page 1).

Football

Malaysian agency M-League Marketing is understood to have agreed a deal worth about $13 million (£6.7 million/€9.8 million) for English Premier League football’s mobile and internet clips package.  Th
Football

TV Azteca and Televisa have unofficially agreed not to compete for football

Football

English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.
Cycling

Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from  the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …
Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Football

Competition between PCCW and i-Cable results in near-tripling of rights fees