Ice Hockey

Baseball
Argentina

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

Athletics
Europe

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

Ice Hockey
Europe

MTV3 offers double current domestic ice-hockey rights fee
Football
Asia

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
North America

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
France

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
Scandinavia

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

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.
American Football
Asia

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…
Australian Rules Football
Canada

Ice hockey: Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC retained the rights for live coverage of the US National Hockey League in a six-year deal that will keep its flagship Hockey Night in Canada programme…
Basketball

EPL remind video-sharing site that it is unhappy about continual copyright breaches
Basketball
Australia

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
Ice Hockey
Europe

Finland’s top domestic ice hockey league, the SM-liiga, is to put most of its matches on to pay-television
Football
Asia

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.