United Kingdom

Football
Europe

Repackaged FA Cup and England matches could attract ITV bid, leading to increased competition, rights fees

Football
Belgium

Bidders in the Netherlands and Belgium to submit new bids because the initial offers were too low.
Boxing
Europe

The BBC has paid-off one of the UK’s leading boxing promoters to stop him taking legal action
Cricket
Australia

Cricket:  Indian pay-television broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television acquired the international rights to this month’s India v Pakistan tour for $11.5m (£6m/€8.7m).

Football
Europe

Setanta to put live Premier League football on digital-terrestrial TV, BSkyB follow suit
Europe

NTL becomes Virgin Media, BSkyB triple-play becomes See, Speak and Surf
Asia

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Baseball
France

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.

Cricket
Europe

The value to a sponsor of terrestrial television coverage against satellite coverage
Cycling
United Kingdom

Tour of Britain is looking for a new rights-distributor
Boxing
Germany

Asian Games:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan acquired the exclusive rights in India for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, paying $400,000 (£215,000/€313,000), an increase of $50,000 on what it paid for the previous Games.

Horse Racing
Europe

Racing UK is considering offering live coverage to mobile operators and broadband internet betting websites
Football
Europe

English football’s Premier League has split its non-live coverage rights into five packages.

Football
Europe

NTL may bid for four of the six live television rights packages of English football’s Premier League.

Football
Australia

·   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.  De
Rugby Union
Europe

The Six Nations championship boosted television audiences in all participating countries except Italy.

Football
Europe

The viewing figures for British Sky Broadcasting’s live coverage of Premier League matches have taken on an added importance.

Cricket
Asia

Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN are hoping to make a big move into cricket in a bid to target a worldwide Asian audience.