Sub-Saharan Africa

Football

The Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation’s hopes of raising the funds needed to acquire rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament were boosted after mining company First Quantum M…
Football

Public-service broadcaster the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for rights to this year’s Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.
Cricket

Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom

Cricket

ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal

Football

Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).
Football

Zambian public-service broadcaster the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation has appealed for sponsorship in a bid to raise the funds needed to acquire rights for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations

Supersport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, acquired rights for the 2012 Olympic Games, which take place in London next summer
Football

The Confederation of African Football, the governing body for football in Africa, accused the International Olympic Committee of “disrespect” following the IOC’s reprimand of Caf’s president Issa Hayatou…
Basketball

Basketball: The MP & Silva agency brokered several deals for the Spanish league, the ACB, beginning this season
Rugby Union

France holds the key for 2015

Rugby Union

Two-event sales keep Rugby World Cup income growing

Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, completed its Champions League rights process in Brazil by renewing deals with pay-television operator ESPN and free-to-air sports broadcaster Esporte I…
Football

The English Football Association is set to continue its round of international rights sales for 2008-12
Football

Football: Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera acquired the
Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts: US pay-television channel Spike TV will stream live on its website preliminary bouts from season five of the US mixed martial arts promotion Bellator Fighting Championships
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed a series of pay-television and free-to-air television deals for 2012-13 to 2014-15 for the rights to the Champions League and Europa league i…
Football

Rugby's international tender

Football

Investment in South African football pays off for league