Swimming

Basketball
Argentina

Fox is expanding in Brazil and won't be relying on football

Athletics

FOOTBALL Football: US pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN acquired rights for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The ESPN3
Swimming
North America

US cable-television broadcaster Universal Sports, part of US media group NBCUniversal, has extended rights for events operated by the USA Swimming national governing body
Athletics
Europe

EBU warns federations that opting for agency cash might not work out in the long term; EBU renewals and losses in 2012
Swimming
Asia

The World Sport Group agency revealed multi-platform coverage plans across regional television broadcasters and video streaming platforms for the inaugural Southeast Asian Swimming Championships
Swimming

The European Broadcasting Union, the consortium of public-service broadcasters, renewed it rights deal with the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN), the governing body for swimming in Europe, for four …
American Football
Africa

IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Boxing
Asia

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the exclusive rights for the next five fights of the Klitschko brothers, Vladimir and Vitali, in a deal with the Klitschko Management Group worth a reported…
Athletics
Albania

Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.

Football
Albania

The major agencies are battling to add to their football federation portfolios in the countdown to the Euro 2012 qualifying draw next month.
Athletics
Europe

The court date set for this month that was to rule, once and for all, on the ownership of television rights to Spain’s football Liga has been postponed by at least six months, to next June or July.

Football
Asia

Olympics: Turkish commercial network Fox Turkey acquired the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.

Australian Rules Football
Australia

The launch of Australia’s first-ever free-to-air sports channel, One, is an unprecedented challenge to leading pay sports broadcaster Fox Sports.

Basketball
Brazil

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Athletics
Europe

The Spanish Sports Broadcasting Council approved a final draft of listed sports events that are to be protected for free-to-air television
Athletics
Denmark

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

Football: Sports agency Sportfive acquired the worldwide international television rights for the German Bundesliga in a two-year deal, from 2004-05 to 2005-06, paying over €15m (£10m) per season.
Athletics
Europe

Double threat to Eurosport from Eurosport-sceptics within EBU, and EC investigation into EBU collective selling