United Kingdom

American Football

American Football: The National Football League extended its television rights deals with US networks Fox and CBS for a further two years, up until the end of the 2012-13 season
Football

The Premier League is set to stagger its next international rights sales process in a move that will rule out what was always a remote possibility of someone making a worldwide bid for the rights.
Football

The SPL chose to ignore the potential of an agency bidding war by extending its international television rights deal with Sportfive without putting the rights on the market.
Football

Football: German sports channel DSF acquired the rights for the 2009 Fifa Confederations Cup in June. DSF will show 14 games live including the final and the third-place playoff match
Athletics

Athletics: US broadcaster NBC and its cable and broadband subsidiary Universal Sports acquired the rights for the World Athletics Series, covering Indoor and outdoor World Championships and other events,…

The decision to move the Australian and Malaysian Formula One grands prix to later timeslots for the benefit of European television audiences has paid off.

Football

Football: Sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil acquired pay-television rights in Brazil for the 2010 World Cup in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster Globo
Badminton

Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.
American Football

Football television rights values in the Netherlands are plunging, with pay-channel Sport1 succeeding in getting massive rights-fee reductions on key contracts.
Rugby Union

Ireland’s first Grand Slam victory since 1948 helped rugby union Six Nations broadcasters in Ireland and the UK post record television audiences for the 2009 championship.

Football

Football: The Sportsman Media Group, which is distributing the rights for the German Bundesliga in 16 markets across Southern Europe and Asia, has agreed deals in 13 territories
American Football

American Football: US digital satellite platform DirecTV extended its deal for the rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in a four-year deal, from 2011 to 2014, with the National Football League
Football

A Formula One television rights deal in the Middle East looks set to go down to the wire, with just two weeks left until the season-opener.
Cricket

Sony is facing a massive loss on its coverage of India’s cricket tour to New Zealand, which started this week.
Football

ITV is trying to renegotiate payment schedules for its key football rights contracts as part of a company-wide drive to battle cashflow problems.
Football

Football: The Sportfive agency acquired the fixed-media rights to Fifa events in a four-year deal with international football’s governing body from 2009 to 2012, including the 2010 World Cup in South A…
Football

The ability of Setanta to successfully adjust its business model will arguably be the single biggest factor determining the shape of the UK sports rights landscape over the next five years.

Athletics

The IAAF has begun a second round of talks for its European television rights after a cut-price opening offer from its incumbent partner, the EBU.