United Kingdom

Football

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

American Football

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…
Football

Football: The English Premier League sold the rights for its internet and mobile clips packages to various companies worldwide for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10, bringing in about $40m (£20m/€29m).
Football

Setanta attracts average of 373,000 for first five live Premier League matches

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Cycling

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Football

Champions League, Football League and Heineken Cup rights-holders should be confident of strong rights-fee increases next time round

Rugby Union

Advertisers keen on rugby as it attracts affluent males

Football

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 

British grand prix attracts highest audience since 2001 despite clash with Wimbledon tennis final

Football

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Football

The French team’s success in getting to the World Cup final boosted advertising revenue for French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6.

Boxing

Commonwealth Games: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten and pay-operator Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Cricket

Deals signed in North America, Pakistan, Middle East, Caribbean; deal in South Africa close
Football

Turkey and the Middle East are likely to set down impressive markers for the rest of the market.

Football

The UK’s five main mobile-telephone operators may come to seriously regret failing to win the mobile-clips rights of English football’s Premier League.

Football

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets