Cycling

Baseball

Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for US motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.

Baseball

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Badminton

Minor sports in Denmark have turned to the internet to increase their exposure and drive revenues rather than rely on traditional broadcasters.

Bobsleigh/skeleton

Football: The English Premier League signed deals in Asia, Australia and North America for its live rights for the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Athletics

Subsidiary DDtv acquires cash-strapped Danmarks Radio's content portfolio as part of Danish DTT strategy
Cycling

Antena 3 to expand expand sports programming on DTT channel Neox, after acquisition of World Cup skiing rights
American Football

Cricket: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired the rights to this month's Champions Trophy and the 2007 World Cup in a deal with News Corporation subsidiary Global Cricket Corporation.

Cycling

The Union Cycliste Internationale is set to go ahead with the planned centralisation of the television rights of its professional road racing series, the Pro Tour.

American Football

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.

Cycling

National team home matches sold to incumbent broadcaster, TV2, in four-year deal
Cycling

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

Cycling

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere
Cycling

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Cycling

German audiences crash, but ratings in France hold up

Cycling

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
American Football

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.

Athletics

Rugby union: UK pay-broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting acquired the exclusive live rights to European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in the UK and Ireland in a four-year deal, from 2006-07 to 2…
Cycling

EBU membership threatened and other Scandinavian public service broadcasters angered by cost-cutting measures