Handball

Basketball

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 
Boxing

Olympics: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired the rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in a $18m (£9m/ €13m) deal with the International Ol…
Handball

Huge television audiences for 2007 World Championship encourage competition between broadcasters
Handball

Pay-television operator Modern Times Group has for the first time acquired television rights for Denmark’s popular domestic handball leagues.

Basketball

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
Athletics

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

Handball

Danish state-owned broadcasters Danmarks Radio and TV2 this week completed an extensive swap of handball rights
Handball

The International Handball Federation says that it will take in-house the television and marketing rights for the sport’s 2007 and 2009 World Championships
Athletics

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Cycling

EBU membership threatened and other Scandinavian public service broadcasters angered by cost-cutting measures
Football

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Handball

Clubs from the Danish women’s handball league are threatening to break away from the domestic and European leagues in a row involving television-rights income.

Handball

The German Handball League is set to win a big increase in its television rights fees if it accepts an offer by Premiere.

Basketball

Robert Müller von Vultejus explains agency's branching into production and broadcast
American Football

American football:  US network NBC acquired the so-called “network package” of American football’s National Football League rights, the main package of 23 matches per season, paying $600m (£316m/€465m) a year ov…
Basketball

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a
Handball

The European Broadcasting Union is planning to bid for the first time for the rights for handball’s World Championships
Handball

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe