Spain

Football
Argentina

Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Cricket
Asia

Forthcoming negotiations for the domestic rights for English rugby union’s Guinness Premiership will act as an interesting barometer of the state of the UK sports rights market, three months before the start of football’s Premier League rights talks.

Football
Africa

Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Cycling
Europe

English football’s Premier League has blocked its Greek licensee Nova from showing its Saturday 3pm matches.
Europe

Commercial channels across Europe are challenging state broadcasters’ acquisition of major sports rights, as part of wider lobbying for stricter controls and limits on the financing of the public-service sector.
Basketball
Brazil

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Basketball
Europe

Europe’s top club basketball competition, the Euroleague, secured a small rights-fee increase in its new four-year rights deal with broadcasters in Spain.

Boxing
China

UK pay-operator Setanta looks to hit ambitious subscriber targets.

Football
Belgium

Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)
Football
Europe

The launch of Spanish agency Mediapro’s new football channel, GolTV, has come at a particularly bad time for Prisa.
Football
Czech Republic

Football: Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable acquired the television rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with Fifa worth just over €90m (£71m). 
Austria

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.
Football
Europe

Acquiring the 2010 football World Cup rights was crucial for Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable
Football
Europe

Spanish rights agency Mediapro will launch its new football channel, Canal de Fútbol, later this month but will have to do so without any domestic La Liga football.
Europe

The early signs are not good for the European Broadcasting Union
Cycling
Belgium

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope
Football
Europe

Proposals include limiting contracts to three years, and dropping requirements for free-to-air coverage and clubs' permission for television matches.
Cycling
Europe

Tour wins new EBU deal but UCI must try harder