United Kingdom

Football

German commercial broadcaster pleased with audiences in first season of "too expensive" deal.

Football

Competitive season draws bigger audiences for Premier League coverage on BSkyB and BBC, but ESPN's look to be stagnating already.

Basketball

Basketball: Euroleague Basketball agreed deals in the UK, China and Iceland for the 2010 Final Four
Football

Football: Hong Kong free-to-air broadcasters TVB and ATV agreed a deal with pay-television operator I-Cable for coverage of the opening match, the semi-finals and the final of the 2010 Fifa World Cup
Rugby League

Bigger inventory, improved format and market-by-market approach give Sanzar healthy increases in three home markets

Football

Expanding number of live matches offered to TV is now the most obvious way of driving domestic revenues.

Golf

Golf: US broadcaster America One Television acquired the rights for the OneAsia Series in a three-year deal, from 2010 to 2012, brokered by the World Sport Group agency
American Football

American Football: UK pay-broadcaster ESPN acquired the rights for NFL Monday Night football in a two-year deal covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. The deal covers live, repeat and pre-game programming
Football

Football: ESPN acquired mobile clip rights for the English Premier League in the UK in a three-year deal with the league worth about £15m, from 2010-11 to 2012-13.
Horse Racing

The latest figures from the UK and beyond showing HD's growth.

Basketball

Basketball: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten acquired the rights for the National Basketball League, Australia's top-tier basketball competition, in a five-year deal directly with the league…
Rugby Union

Big audiences followed the successful teams this year, with Grand Slam winners France landing the biggest domestic audience increase.

Football

The Premier League is using a bid for its online clips rights that Google planned several years ago to attack the internet giant in court.

American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
Cricket

IPL lands 90-per-cent penetration in UK with ITV4 deal

A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.

Athletics

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5
Football

Football: French commercial broadcaster TF1 sublicensed rights for the 2010 World Cup to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus in deals worth a combined €33m ($4…