Football

·   Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).  TVP

Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid was the world’s biggest earning club in 2004-05.

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

NTV Plus set to acquire domestic rights for the Russian Premier League.

South Africa’s Premier Soccer League wants to renew its domestic television rights deal a year early to bring in a higher fee.

English football’s Premier League is likely to split the sale of its delayed-as-live television rights into two packages in its forthcoming tender.

Premiere, the German pay-television broadcaster, has salvaged something of its reputation following its deal with DSF.

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency. 

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.

Media Partners & Silva set to take a long-term stranglehold on the international rights of Serie A clubs.

Talpa signs deal for Dutch national football team away qualifiers.

Rai set to acquire rights for Euro 2008 from Sportfive.

Audiences fall in 17 out of 19 European markets.

Shock award of international media rights for German league football

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.