Cricket

Ten Sports beats competition from ESSS and Sony to sign four-year deal

West Indies-Sri Lanka test not broadcast in Asia

The value of the Australian Cricket Board’s television rights in the UK looks set to fall by 36 per cent.

This month’s deal between the Pakistan cricket board and broadcasters Ten Sports and ARY Digital is the latest example of cricket boards abandoning traditional sports rights agencies.

The Pakistan Cricket Board could miss out on $100 million of income by the outright sale of its television rights for five years.

The launch of British Sky Broadcasting’s broadband internet site showing same-day highlights of World Cup Cricket has provided a major boost for the UK broadband market.

Is UK broadcaster Channel 4 losing interest in sport?

Sony is struggling to conclude sub-licensing deals for the cable and satellite rights for this year’s cricket World Cup in Asia outside India and Nepal.

Sony Entertainment Television is in dispute with rights agency Global Cricket Corporation over the exclusivity of its Asian rights deal for the 2003 and 2007 cricket World Cups.

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…

Asian cable and satellite broadcaster Ten Sports emerged as the clear favourite to win the worldwide television rights for Sri Lankan cricket.

Olympics: The European Broad-casting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters, acquired the rights to the Winter Olympics in 2010 and the Summer Games in 2012.

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Football: Five Italian Serie A clubs sold the rights for their remaining home games of the season to pay-operator Sky Italia in deals worth between €300,000 (£201,000) and €350,000 a match.  Th

Celtic unions were worried that switching to commercial broadcaster would have placed into doubt BBC coverage of Autumn Internationals

Rugby Union:  The BBC extended its deal for rugby union’s Six Nations Championship for a further four years, from 2006 to 2009.  The deal includes radio, television and internet rights.  T

Pakistani rights-holder, Ary Digital, annoyed with premature announcement of coverage

Cricket involving India, rather than cricket in general, being seen as the key content