Golf

Football

The EBU has renewed television rights deals for gymnastics, weightlifting and Greco-Roman wrestling, but pulled out of broadcasting judo, as part of a “reshaping” of its sports portfolio.
Golf

Sogecable is at least maintaining its strong golf rights portfolio, despite fighting a losing battle in the ‘football war’ with the Mediapro agency and facing a major new challenge with the legalisation of pay-television digital-terrestrial services.

Badminton

Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.
Golf

The escalating Asian golf split between the Asian Tour and the new One Asia Super Series looks certain to disrupt the Asian Tour’s main pan-regional television rights deal with ESPN Star Sports.

American Football

American Football: US digital satellite platform DirecTV extended its deal for the rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in a four-year deal, from 2011 to 2014, with the National Football League
Golf

Golf’s Asian Tour is engaged in a legal row with its long-standing agency partner, WSG after the two sides failed to extend their relationship for the 2009 season.
Athletics

Athletics: The IMG agency acquired the international television rights for the newly-created Diamond League in a five-year deal, 2010 to 2014, guaranteeing around $6m (€4.7m) a year.
Athletics

Athletics: The Organización de Telecomunicaciones Iberoamericanas, the Latin American broadcasting union, acquired the rights for the 2009 World Championship for member broadcasters in Argentina (cable …
American Football

UK pay-broadcaster Setanta’s audiences for Premier League football are up 56 per cent on last season, according to the latest figures.
Athletics

Athletics: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC extended its deal for domestic athletics events for a further six years, from 2009 to 2014
American Football

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Australian Rules Football

The launch of Australia’s first-ever free-to-air sports channel, One, is an unprecedented challenge to leading pay sports broadcaster Fox Sports.

Athletics

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

Cycling

Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.

Football

Football fans in the Middle East have had a battle to access Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of Euro 2008.

Basketball

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 
Basketball

Motorsport: Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco acquired Formula One rights in Spain in a two-year deal covering the 2004 and 2005 seasons
Cricket

New channels face competition from satellite operators ADD, Showtime, Orbit, and free-to-air MBC