Cricket

Cricket
Asia

Three Asian cricket deals renegotiated in a week

American Football
Australia

Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m).  The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.

Cricket
France

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

Cricket
Asia

Cricket’s inaugural Super Series is being blacked-out in Pakistan and Bangladesh
American Football
Austria

Baseball: US cable broadcaster ESPN renewed its long-term deal for Major League Baseball, paying $2.368bn (£1.3bn/€1.9bn) over eight years, from 2006 to 2013.

Cricket
Europe

British Sky Broadcasting is close to a deal for the live rights for cricket’s 2007 World Cup in the West Indies
Cricket
Asia

Indian sports fans face a stark choice next summer
Cricket
Europe

Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting is set to sign a deal for the England cricket team’s tour to Pakistan
Cricket
Croatia

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Cricket
Asia

The Board of Control for Cricket in India will issue another controversial television-rights tender next week.
Cricket
Europe

No one anticipated the huge excitement and success of the Ashes cricket series between England and Australia
Cricket
France

Ice hockey: Nordic pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live pay-television and pay-per-view rights for the Swedish Elitserien, the country’s top-tier league, from the Svenska Hockeyligan in a four-year deal, 2006-07 to 2009-10

Cricket
Europe

Cricket’s much-anticipated first Ashes Test between England and Australia drew one of the biggest sports audiences in recent years for UK commercial broadcaster Channel Four

Cricket
Asia

Asian cricket supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya agreed a deal for the rights for a new annual Afro-Asia Cup competition with Nimbus Sport,
Cricket
Asia

The Indian government is to push through listed-events legislation that will have a major impact on the country’s sports broadcasters
Cricket
Asia

90-day period of exclusive talks for England & Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe rights exhausted

Cricket
Asia

Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Boxing
Europe

Viewer numbers fall but audience share increases during unseasonably hot weather