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• Formula One: German free-to-air sports broadcaster DSF acquired a package of Formula One rights for the 2007 season.

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 reportedly acquired the rights for football's Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.

Television rights deals with incumbent partners ABC/ESPN and TNT likely to be the most valuable of the year.

UK pay-operator’s English Premier League deal was year's largest television sports-rights deal.

Uefa's stumbling block in rights negotions for Euro 2008

US television networks HBO, Showtime and ESPN set to increase amount of boxing shown