Switzerland

Football
Asia

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

Baseball
Asia

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
Belgium

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope
Tennis
Europe

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

Boxing
Denmark

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

Equestrian
Europe

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

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
Austria

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
Belgium

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

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

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
Australia

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

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

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
Asia

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.

Bobsleigh/skeleton
Asia

Football: The English Premier League signed deals in Asia, Australia and North America for its live rights for the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Football
Albania

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Football
Argentina

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.