United Kingdom
Europe

The battle between F1 legend Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso boosted television audiences in three of Europe’s top five markets this season.

Australian Rules Football
Australia

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.

Rugby League
Europe

Rugby league’s Super League grand final between St Helens and Hull attracted the league’s highest-ever live television audience for a match shown by BSkyB.

Basketball
Asia

Increased fees and coverage in Italy and Spain, but no renewal in UK, and fees and contract lengths fall in France and Germany
Rugby Union
Europe

UK rugby union's top-tier clubs to sell rights separately from national governing body
Boxing
Africa

Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …
Football
Europe

English football league gets increased rights fees and more free-to-air coverage
Boxing
Europe

Welsh boxer's victory over Mikkel Kessler watched by 283,000 at 1:30AM in the morning
Cricket
Europe

Bill Sinrich, the former top IMG executive, could be on the verge of a spectacular re-entry into the industry.

Golf
Europe

The BBC could struggle to keep hold of the rights for the US Masters.

Football
Argentina

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

Basketball
Asia

Olympics: Australia’s Nine Network and pay-platform Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics in a deal worth A$126m (£55m/€79m) with the International Olympic Committee.  In
Football
Africa

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m
Europe

Hamilton, Raikkonen, Kubica, Alonso attract big audiences in home markets, but German, French and Italian audiences fall

Football
Europe

Champions League, Football League, Rugby League and Rugby World Cup properties on the market in next few weeks

Football
Europe

Football: Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR acquired the rights for all 31 matches of the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal with the Sportfive agency.

Cricket
Greece

BBC’s cricket bid hangs on Sky and Champions League T
Football
Denmark

The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.