Football

Football

A joint-bid from Canal Plus and Telenor comfortably won the Premier League rights in the Nordic region after much less competition than was expected.

Football

PCCW looks to have delivered a killer blow in the battle to dominate the local pay-television market by snatching the Premier League rights from rival I-Cable TV.

Football

Pay-television operator Showtime is talking to rival broadcasters in the Middle East, Al Jazeera Sport and ART, after outbidding them for Premier League rights.

Football

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

Football

Both big clubs and small clubs hope that centralisation will help re-establish status of Uefa Cup
Cricket

Future of sport on New Zealand public service television in doubt after TVNZ loses Olympics to Sky Television and Prime
Football

Chief Executive confident making up for loss of Uefa Cup television rights business
Athletics

Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

Football

A bid for the television rights of Primera Liga club Real Madrid by regional public-service broadcaster Telemadrid has been greeted with scepticism in Spain.

Football

The IMG agency is to submit a global bid for the English Premier League’s international rights

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed a deal for Euro 2008 rights with Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF.

Football

The Nordic free-to-air television landscape is set for another shift in ownership power with the exit of Norwegian media group Schibsted.

Football

Scandinavia’s three main commercial broadcasters have broken away from a wider free-to-air consortium to bid as a separate group for football’s Euro 2008 rights

Basketball

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

Football

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 
Australian Rules Football

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.

Football

Football: Indonesian media group Media Nusantara Citra, owner of free-to-air broadcasters RCTI, TPI and Global TV, acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying between $11m (£5.4m/€7.5m
Football

Primera Liga rights-holding company Audiovisual Sport could face two legal challenges complaining about the way it handles the sale of the league’s television rights.