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India to be carved out of ICC-IMG deal due next week

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports faces a tough challenge to hit

Setanta’s acquisition of US PGA golf rights came after a fierce bidding war with incumbent rights-holder BSkyB.

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008

The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007

England’s defeat by South Africa in the final of rugby union’s World Cup attracted the largest television sports audience in the UK in 2007

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

British Sky Broadcasting’s pay-per-view Premier League football service

Cricket: Asian pay-broadcaster Zee Sports acquired the Indian cable and satellite rights to India’s three-Test series against Sri Lanka in a deal with the newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India