United Kingdom

Football

February 11-March 12: Team Marketing, Uefa’s Champions League sales agent, launched a tender on February 11 for the next three year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.
Cricket

Kirch shadow falls on Champions League rights Speculation that German media entrepreneur Leo Kirch may be planning a merger between German rights group EM
Athletics

Motorsport: German pay-broadcaster Premiere extended its deal for live Formula One rights by one year, until the end of the 2007 season.

Football

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.

Football

Last month witnessed an extraordinary couple of weeks in the UK sports-rights industry
Football

The climax of the football season in Europe attracted big audiences for free-to-air broadcasters across the continent.

Badminton

Minority sports remain worried that the scrapping of the BBC’s Grandstand sports programme will make it even harder to win free-to-air television coverage.

Basketball

Cricket: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the exclusive rights for the India Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 competition set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a five-year deal…
Cricket

Rugby League: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB and public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights for the top-tier Super League, the second-tier National League, international matches and the Challenge…
Football

Olympics: New Zealand pay-broadcaster Sky Television and its free-to-air arm Prime acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a $10.5m (£5.1m/€7.2m) deal with the International Olympic Committee.
Rugby League

Rugby League signs deal with BSkyB and BBC, and receives big boost in rights fee income
Football

The £1.706 billion paid for the Premier League’s live rights for the 2007-08 to 2009-10 seasons represents a 68-per-cent increase on the present £1.024 billion deal.

Football

Pay-broadcaster believed to have paid record £5m per match to beat off BSkyB and BBC
Football

English football’s Premier League emerged smiling at the conclusion of its latest television live-rights bidding process.

Cricket

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.

The Turin Winter Olympics attracted impressive audiences to European public-service broadcasters.

Football

Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.

Cricket

Expatriate communities in North America have turned themselves from a niche television audience into one of the fastest growing sports rights markets in the world.