Skiing

Basketball

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).

Football

Kirch's Bundesliga deal, Forstmann's 3-year anniversary at IMG, La Liga fee cut, German skiing fiasco
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.

Skiing

Finnish viewing figures for ski-jumping’s blue-riband Four Hills tournament soared
Athletics

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

Skiing

Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity
Skiing

The Fédération Internationale de Ski, the sport’s world governing body, will try to buy the television rights for each of the national associations
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. 
Skiing

German ski association's rights fee income falls amid general decline in interest in skiing's big markets
Skiing

It was one of the crown jewels of German sport until recently
Football

Football World Cup agency Infront is close to acquiring the Milan-based agency Media Partners in a €130 million cash deal.

Skiing

Lack of top German competitors has led to a large drop in audiences since last rights sale

Biathlon

Rights-holders and commercial broadcasters united in opposition

Skiing

Weekday lunchtime television slots mean Swedish television audiences miss Anja Paerson's medal winning performances

Football

Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Skiing

RTL sold on the rights for one of this year’s World Cup ski-jumping events after a row with the FIS

Athletics

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.