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The pay-television ambitions of Orange appear to have suffered a major blow after the country’s competition authority advised that its present distribution strategy could not be justified.
Football

Orange is to target French Open tennis rights as it returns to the sports acquisition trail, having put rights-buying on hold in recent months because of a continuing legal row over the distribution of its Orange Sport channel.
Athletics

Athletics: US free-to-air broadcaster NBC extended its deal with the New York City Road Runners for the television rights for the New York City marathon for three years from 2009 to 2011
Tennis

The Sportfive agency has won the distribution rights in Asia for the French Open in a four-year deal with the French Tennis Federation, replacing the federation’s long-term agency partner IMG.

Athletics

Athletics: US broadcaster NBC and its cable and broadband subsidiary Universal Sports acquired the rights for the World Athletics Series, covering Indoor and outdoor World Championships and other events,…
Badminton

Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.
Basketball

Olympics: The Sportfive agency acquired the rights in 40 European countries for the 2014 Winter Games at Sochi and the 2016 Summer Games in a deal worth €250m ($315m) with the International Olympic Committee.
Athletics

The IAAF has begun a second round of talks for its European television rights after a cut-price opening offer from its incumbent partner, the EBU.
Cricket

The lack of government legislation in India over news access to sports events is provoking further tension between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Nimbus Communications agency.
Football

In a major year of sporting action, Uefa events accounted for the biggest audiences for the BBC, ITV1, Five and BSkyB.
Football

Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Tennis

The centralisation of media rights for the new ATP 500 series is set to generate significant increases in exposure and television rights income.
Cycling

English football’s Premier League has blocked its Greek licensee Nova from showing its Saturday 3pm matches.
Cricket

Olympics: Spanish media group Telefónica’s Latin American digital media arm Terra acquired the internet and mobile platform rights to the 2008 Olympic Games.

Tennis

Rafael Nadal’s epic five-set win over defending Wimbledon champion Roger Federer drew large audiences across Europe.

Tennis

The next round of negotiations for pan-Asian Formula One and Wimbledon rights will have a wider resonance for ESPN Star Sports.
Tennis

A new potential bidder for the Middle East rights for Wimbledon and Australian Open tennis emerged last week.

Tennis

Roger Federer is not the only one tiring of his French Open tennis finals with Spanish star Rafael Nadal