Ice Hockey

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. 
Ice Hockey

Matching rights option exercised to secure €6 million per year, three-year deal

Baseball

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Football

The switch-over in Finland from analogue to digital-terrestrial television transmission could shake up the country’s “quiet and closed” sports-rights market.

Boxing

Commonwealth Games: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten and pay-operator Foxtel acquired the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Ice Hockey

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC could be squeezed out of sports broadcasting altogether.

Baseball

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

Athletics

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

Ice Hockey

MTV3 offers double current domestic ice-hockey rights fee
Football

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 confirmed their joint acquisition of the rights for Euro 2008, in a €100m (£68m) deal brokered by the Sportfive agency. 
Ice Hockey

Channel aims to win the rights for all four major US sports leagues
Ice Hockey

European pay-channel North American Sports Network this week signed a shock last-minute deal
Ice Hockey

The North American National Hockey League has effected a remarkable turnaround
Ice Hockey

North America’s National Hockey League is considering a pan-European television-rights offer from cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport
Basketball

Ice hockey: US cable and satellite broadcaster Outdoor Life Network acquired the rights for the National Hockey League in a two-year deal for 2005-06 and 2006-07, worth $135m (£73.2m/€107.6m), paying $65m in the first year and $70m in the second.

Cricket

Ice hockey: Nordic pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live pay-television and pay-per-view rights for the Swedish Elitserien, the country’s top-tier league, from the Svenska Hockeyligan in a four-year deal, 2006-07 to 2009-10

Ice Hockey

The recent trend of Nordic broad-casters paying massively increased fees for sports rights continued
Boxing

Formula 1: Spanish sports agency Mediapro acquired the rights for Formula 1 in a five-year deal, 2009 to 2013, in a deal thought to be worth about €35m (£24m) a year.