Football

Football
Asia

Top value Serie A rights sold in one-year deals - total rights fee looks set to fall
Football
Kuwait

Middle-East pay-broadcaster on course to break-even after adding 35,000 new subscribers in a month
Football
Poland

New deals for top-tier domestic football and Formula One to play important role in shaping future of the market
Football
Africa

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Basketball
Africa

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Football
Africa

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Football
Europe

Sogecable pays more for Serie A rights after MP & Silva drop plan to work with Mediapro
Football
Europe

MP & Silva suing over collapsed negotiations for €7 million three-year deal, makes complaint to German anti-trust authority
Football
Europe

Champions League, Football League and Heineken Cup rights-holders should be confident of strong rights-fee increases next time round

Air Racing
Asia

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…
Football
Africa

Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC sublicensed the rights for 143 matches of the Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, from pay-broadcaster SuperSport. 
Football
Africa

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Football
Europe

The French team’s success in getting to the World Cup final boosted advertising revenue for French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6.

Football
Asia

Sportfive fights off strong competition to win international rights for 2008-09 to 2009-10

Football
Europe

The switch-over in Finland from analogue to digital-terrestrial television transmission could shake up the country’s “quiet and closed” sports-rights market.

Cycling
Belgium

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

Football
Europe

Bidding for the traditional free-to-air highlights rights for French football’s Ligue 1 is unlikely to be too competitive
Football
Belgium

The Sportfive agency has agreed deals for Euro 2008 in Israel and Flemish-speaking Belgium