Equestrian

Basketball: Euroleague Basketball agreed deals in the UK, China and Iceland for the 2010 Final Four

Football television rights values in the Netherlands are plunging, with pay-channel Sport1 succeeding in getting massive rights-fee reductions on key contracts.

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

The move by Amaury, owner of the commercial rights to cycling’s Tour de France, into golf and equestrianism has brought a mixed response from observers.

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM

The international equestrian federation’s revamp of the sport’s national team competition appears to have been highly successful.

Great Britain is the only European country competing in the Samsung Nations Cup to show no interest in acquiring television coverage of the series.

Television coverage, in Europe and Asia, of a new equestrian driving series will be a first for the sport.

The UK round of showjumping’s Samsung Super League will have no coverage on the country's terrestrial television.

Electronics company Samsung is set to renew its title sponsorship of show jumping’s Nations Cup

Athletics: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta extended a deal for the Golden League series in 2008 and 2009.  The deal was brokered by the IMG agency.

Last week’s biggest-ever US television deal for the World Equestrian Games in 2010 is a major breakthrough for the sport in its attempts to broaden its audience

The Fédération Equestre International is set to renew its television deal with the European Broadcasting Union

Rugby League: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB and public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights for the top-tier Super League, the second-tier National League, international matches and the Challenge…

The EBU is set to renew its deal with the Fédération Equestre Internationale, equestrianism’s world governing body.

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

Basketball: Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live rights for the Euroleague in a three-year deal, from 2005-06 to 2007-08, with the Bonivest agency, which brokered the deal on behalf of Euroleague Basketball.

Horseracing:  UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 signed a one-year deal to continue its horseracing coverage in 2006 after the horseracing and betting industries agreed to pay the channel £4.95m (€7.4m).