Switzerland

Football

Football: UK pay-broadcasters BSkyB and ESPN acquired the rights for the Scottish Premier League in a three-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2011-12, with the league having an option to extend the deal for a…
Football

Football: England’s Premier League generated £1.782bn (€2.05bn/$2.62bn) in the sale of its domestic live rights for the three-year period from 2010-11 to 2012-13. The deal is a 4.5-pe
American Football

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Football

Olympics: Turkish commercial network Fox Turkey acquired the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.

Baseball

Baseball: US sports network ESPN extended a deal with Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm for inter-active television and other digital media rights through to 2013.
Cycling

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope
Tennis

Roger Federer is not the only one tiring of his French Open tennis finals with Spanish star Rafael Nadal

Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Equestrian

The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.
Football

Team is close to agreeing a deal with SRG in which the rights fee is linked to the qualification and progress of Swiss teams.

Football

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

Athletics

Athletics Managements and Services have said that selling the television rights for the Golden League will be tough.
Cycling

Negotiations upcoming with Union Cycliste Internationale and individual event organisers about World Championship and World Cup events
Basketball

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Athletics

Football: Fifa, world football’s governing body, rejected a minimum offer of $2.8bn (£1.6bn/€2.3bn)
Football

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to
Cricket

Olympics: CCTV.com, the new-media arm of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, acquired the new-media rights for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in a deal worth an estimated $7m (£3.5m/ €4.9m
Cricket

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India.