Cricket

Basketball
Brazil

Football: Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights for European club competitions the Champions League and the Uefa Cup in three-year deals worth a combined $200m (£102m/ €136m). 
American Football
Asia

American Football:  UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the UK and Ireland rights for the National Football League in a four-year deal from 2007-08 to 2010-11.

Cricket
Europe

Pay-per-view audiences for English football’s Premier League are up by 27 per cent for the opening matches of the season.

Cricket
Middle East

Pakistan cable and satellite broadcaster Geo TV will launch a sports channel in time to show cricket’s Champions Trophy.

Cricket
Asia

The ICC is expecting fees of up to $1 billion (£535 million/€790 million) for its next television and new-media rights deal.

Cricket
Asia

The deal agreed by Star Television to distribute the sports channels of the Nimbus agency could herald the death of ESPN Star Sports.

Cricket
Asia

The Board of Control for Cricket in India hopes that the sale of its worldwide mobile rights will land it another financial windfall.

Cricket
Africa

African football revenue sharing, Digitürk spoiler, legal challenge to funding of Brazil's Record, CSI drops cricket commission rate
Athletics
Australia

EBU-athletics tensions, Canal Plus basketball fees drop, IOC's Australian rights fee, ESS tears up deals in UK and Australia, Trans World Sport's future in balance
Basketball
Asia

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the rights for the Six Nations tournament in a four-year deal with the Six Nations Committee, from 2010 to 2013, worth over €…
Cricket

The International Cricket Council has chosen a list of five high-profile candidates from which to choose an adviser for its forthcoming television rights negotiations.

Boxing
Australia

Ice Skating: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for the World and European Championships and other events in a four-year deal with the International Skating Union, the sport's world governing…
Cricket
Australia

The World Sport Group agency is set to recoup the bulk of its outlay on the overseas rights for cricket’s Indian Premier League from just two territories
Cricket
Malaysia

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Cricket
Austria

Rugby Union: Pay-broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for South Africa’s domestic Currie Cup competition and home Test matches outside the Tri-Nations tournament.

Cricket
Asia

Indian television advertising rates hit record high during World Twenty20 Championship final
Cricket
South Africa

Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star has got off to a strong start in its global sales for International Cricket Council events
American Football
Africa

Athletics: The Dentsu agency signed a 10-year, €180m (£122m) deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations for the worldwide marketing rights and worldwide television rights outside Eu…