Curling

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has acquired exclusive rights for the men’s and women’s provincial curling championships in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has agreed a deal to purchase the Grand Slam of Curling series from event organiser Insight Sports Ltd

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC cancelled its deal to broadcast the country’s Grand Slam curling circuit to leave the series without a domestic broadcast partner just days before its next event.

Basketball: US Asian-focused sports network One World Sports acquired exclusive rights for Chinese basketball’s top-tier league, the CBA, in a multi-year deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency, m…

Curling: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has reportedly agreed a six-year deal with the Canadian Curling Association.

Cricket: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports is set to acquire the worldwide rights to international cricket in Sri Lanka in a four-year deal, from 2005 to 2008.

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.

The Canadian Curling Association could find it difficult to agree a new television deal after pulling out of its four-year contract with CBC, the Canadian public-service broadcaster, after only one year

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Olympics: Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster TV Record acquired the Brazilian media rights across all platforms for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympics Games in London in a $60m (£31m/€45m) de…