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Football

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10

An exciting championship this year boosted MotoGP television audiences in the sport’s two major European markets, Italy and Spain.

Live sport will play a vital role in commercial television’s battle to maintain its leadership in the broadcast market in the next three to five years.

Football

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business
Athletics

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

Football

The IMG agency is to submit a global bid for the English Premier League’s international rights

Golf

The BBC has clung on to the rights for US golf’s Masters for a further year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Golf

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

Football

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.