United Kingdom
Austria

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets
Football
Europe

Commission wants to ensure that collective selling will not result foreclosure of competition by a single buyer
Athletics
Australia

Athletics: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta extended a deal for the Golden League series in 2008 and 2009.  The deal was brokered by the IMG agency.
Europe

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is enjoying a flying start for its coverage of motorcycling’s MotoGP this season, with the rivalry between young Spanish riders Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa

Football
Australia

Can television audiences for cricket’s new India Premier League Twenty20 competition be sustained?

Cricket
Australia

SIC takes Uefa to task over lack of Euro 2008 access
Handball
France

Ice hockey: US network NBC agreed a one-year extension to its revenue-sharing deal with the National Hockey League, through to the end of the 2008-09 season
Cricket
Australia

Cricket: Australian sports broad-caster Fox Sports acquired the rights for Australia’s next two tours to India, including the four Test series in October and the seven one-day internationals in 2009, i…
Basketball
Asia

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Cricket
France

IMG set to win one, lose one as football talks close
Air Racing
Australia

Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service. 
Football
Brazil

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
Rugby Union
Europe

After a record-breaking 2007, television audiences for the 2008 Six Nations rugby union tournament fell in all four markets of the participating countries

Biathlon
Europe

The TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing in December shows Champions League second-phase matches topping the tables in six of 19 countries surveyed.
American Football
Europe

American Football and the Winter Olympics contested the top television sports viewing in the US, taking nine of the Top 10 positions in the 2002 network chart.
Badminton
Europe

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against the Italian government over the use by the country’s broadcasters of mini-advertisements during the televising of football matches.

Football
Europe

Broadband sports provider Sportev is to a sign a global broadband deal for the World Rally Championship with International Sportsworld Communicators.
Football
Europe

The European Commission and the Premier League are both gearing up for a particularly tough battle over the selling of English league’s domestic television rights.