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Asia

UK pay-broadcaster Setanta’s audiences for Premier League football are up 56 per cent on last season, according to the latest figures.
Athletics
Asia

Athletics: French pay-television operator Canal Plus will broadcast the new six-meeting Ligue national d’athlétisme after nuclear energy company Aveva stepped in with a new sponsorship deal.
Basketball
Asia

Basketball: Brazilian commercial broadcaster Globo is to acquire the rights for the new, top-flight domestic basketball league, Novo Basquete Brasil, for R$1.5m (€474,000/ $633,710) a season.
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Asia

Leading Filipino commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN has struck a blow back at rival Solar Entertainment by winning the rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
American Football
Asia

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Baseball
Asia

Baseball: US sports network ESPN extended a deal with Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm for inter-active television and other digital media rights through to 2013.
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Brazil

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

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Europe

Europe’s top club basketball competition, the Euroleague, secured a small rights-fee increase in its new four-year rights deal with broadcasters in Spain.

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Austria

Basketball: Greek pay-operator NetMed acquired the rights for A1 league club PAOK in a three-year deal from 2008-09 to 2010-11
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Africa

News in Brief

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Europe

Greek commercial channel Antenna 1 is set to snatch Formula One rights
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Australia

Cricket: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB extended its deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board for a further four years, from 2010 to 2013, paying about £260m (€330m). 
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The General Association of International Sports Federations, representing 104 sports governing bodies worldwide, is to launch a new website that will provide video-streaming and a video-on-demand archive for each participating member.

Basketball
Asia

Basketball: German commercial broadcaster DSF acquired the live, delayed and highlights rights for the 2009 and 2011 FIBA European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship from the Fédération Internationale de Basketball.

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Canada

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 
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Poland

Increased competition from Polsat for top sports rights could drive competition
Basketball
Asia

Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
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Europe

Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…