Spain

Football
Argentina

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Cycling
Belgium

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
Football
Europe

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Football
Europe

€75 million (£56 million) Euro 2008 Spanish rights deal ensures agency makes profit

Football
Europe

How small production company rose to become part of Spain's leading production and distribution company
Football
Europe

G-30 deal means Mediapro has rights for 39 out of 42 Liga clubs

Golf
Cyprus

Grass is greener market-by-market for Wimbledon
Football
Europe

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
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
Basketball
Africa

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. 
Europe

Limited penetration major reason for fall

Football
Belgium

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

Football
Europe

Pay-television business has failed to grow despite dominant position since merger with Via Digital
Football
France

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the exclusive live rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a four-year deal from 2006-07 to 2009-10

Football
Europe

Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable strengthened its grip on the rights for Spanish domestic football
Football
Australia

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

Football
Europe

Sogecable is likely to keep its stranglehold on Primera Liga pay-television rights in new deals next summer
Europe

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall