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Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Golf

David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.

Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…
Basketball

Football: Portuguese DTH platform Meo, owned by telecoms firm PT, acquired the high-definition rights to Uefa’s Euro 2008 tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial channel TVI, which holds the r…
Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Cricket

Celtic unions were worried that switching to commercial broadcaster would have placed into doubt BBC coverage of Autumn Internationals
Baseball

Football: Irish pay-per-view broad-caster Setanta signed a four-year, £35m (€52m) deal with the Scottish Premier League.  The deal will run from 2004-05 to 2007-08.  Se
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as the…
Boxing

Football:  German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for a package of seven or eight Sunday matches from the 2006 World Cup from agency Infront Sports & Media.
Golf

US golf’s PGA Tour says that it expects to win increased fees for its next domestic television rights deal
Cricket

The Australian government is to review the laws protecting major sports events for free-to-air television

Athletics

Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
Basketball

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Cricket

Olympics: CCTV.com, the new-media arm of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, acquired the new-media rights for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in a deal worth an estimated $7m (£3.5m/ €4.9m
Football

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.  Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is also set to sign a deal for Euro 2008, paying €120m.

Cricket

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Athletics

Motorsport: German pay-broadcaster Premiere extended its deal for live Formula One rights by one year, until the end of the 2007 season.

Football

Olympics: Italian pay-operator Sky Italia acquired the exclusive media rights for all platforms for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Olympic Games in a deal worth €112m ($168m), with the International O…