Football

The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Olympics, international football, ice hockey, skiing and athletics protected

Noos-Numéricâble becomes first French cable operator to acquire, rather than just distribute, content

Football: Pan-Middle East pay-operator Arab Radio and Television acquired the rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups as part of an eight-year agreement with Fifa spanning all Fifa competitions from 2007 to 2014.

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year

Sale of Tien to RTL Nederland likely to end three-year boom in Dutch sports rights market

Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled

Pay-television business has failed to grow despite dominant position since merger with Via Digital

British Sky Broadcasting’s pay-per-view Premier League football service

Middle East pay-television broadcaster Arab Radio and Television has won the region’s rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups

France’s Ligue 1 may delay its mobile-rights request for tenders because of a dispute with the players association

German mobile phone company T-Mobile is understood to be in talks with the Infront agency