United Kingdom

The Athens Olympics attracted impressive ratings for Europe’s public-service broadcasters
Football

Sports agencies have had a busy fortnight negotiating deals for the opening round of 2006 World Cup
Sailing

The America’s Cup, sailing’s premier event, is on course for a huge increase in television coverage
Football

Three, is at last beginning to generate value from its 3G sports rights
Cricket

Cricket: Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan agreed a deal for the terrestrial rights for select matches from International Cricket Council tournaments up until 2007, including 19 matches from the 2007 World Cup and nine from the Champions Trophy this year and in 2006

Football

Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.

Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board is targeting an increase in television rights fees of 70 per cent
Rugby Union

British Sky Broadcasting acquired the rights for European rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a three-year deal said to be worth £20m (€28.7m), entering talks at the last moment.  In

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

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

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.

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

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

Cricket

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

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

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

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

IMG set to win one, lose one as football talks close