Cricket
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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.
Old CSI connections click for Stanford
Sir Allen Stanford’s Twenty20 cricket matches have brought together the marketing and production team from the former Octagon CSI agency.
Sony wins with big-hitting IPL
The final of cricket’s inaugural India Premier League Twenty20 competition attracted the highest sports audience of the year in India.
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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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Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
World Cups for rugby and cricket dominate Top 20
The rugby World Cup and the cricket World Cup account for 11 of the Top 20 most popular televised sports events on Australian television in 2003
Windfall for Ten as Pakistan and India play cricket
Indian government approves Pakistan cricket matches, Ten looking at as much as $18m ad revenue
‘Never mind our success. Renewing deals is risky’
Despite cricket and snooker deals, Korean electronics supplier does not favour long-term sponsorship contracts
World Sport to get new cricket deal
The WSG Nimbus agency is clear favourite to win a new three-year deal, put out to tender this week, for the television rights for Sri Lankan cricket
Australia likely to de-list overseas cricket tours
Not enough free-to-air coverage could result in delisting pushed for by Foxtel
Court backs WSG on cricket sacking
The television-rights deal between pan-Asian cable and satellite channel Ten Sports and the Sri Lankan cricket board is under threat after a court ruled that the board’s termination of a previous deal, w…
Al-Jazeera wins first sports rights, with more to come
New channels face competition from satellite operators ADD, Showtime, Orbit, and free-to-air MBC
Rugby and cricket lose in South Africa’s first list
Rugby and football associations expect listing to hit finances, cricket board welcomes chance to get good price for rights
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, rugby league, cricket and more
Spanish sports marketing company Santa Monica made an estimated €100m (£70 m) offer for the television rights of nine clubs in the newly-formed G12 group of Spanish Primera Liga football clubs.
Mid-East channel is more lucrative than selling rights
Carriage deal with ADD guarantees an immediate source of revenue and minimum fee per subscriber
ECB’s Sibley adds his old job of advising ECB
Relationship with Octagon CSI over
Asian rights for West Indies sold
Ten Sports beats competition from ESSS and Sony to sign four-year deal
Poor ad sales lead channels to drop coverage of Tests
West Indies-Sri Lanka test not broadcast in Asia