Tennis

Football

Middle East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport has agreed a non-compete pact with rival ART for two major tennis properties
Football

Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Football

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Football

Broadcaster to launch sports channel in November
Football

van Westerloo: RTL5 must acquire premium sports rights or consider moving in a different direction
Football

Argentinian television is getting a more realistic attitude from foreign rights-holders, according to the TyC Sports cable channel
Cricket

Not enough free-to-air coverage could result in delisting pushed for by Foxtel
Basketball

Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Boxing

The BBC, ITV and British Sky Broadcasting tendered initial bids to England’s Football Association for the next three-year package of television rights, covering England home internationals and the FA C…
Athletics

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

AOL Time Warner pulled out of the bidding for the rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games because, it said, it could not meet the International Olympic Committee’s tender requirements.
Tennis

Death of IMG's Mark McCormack unlikely to damage TWI-Wimbledon relationship
Boxing

Satellite pay-television operator BSkyB renewed four important golf deals: (1) exclusive live rights for two Ryder Cups (in 2006 and 2008) with European Tour Productions; (2) live rights for 34 events…
Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Athletics

The poor economic climate has led to a big increase in sports federations buying airtime to show their top events.
Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Tennis

US network NBC acquired the rights for tennis’s French Open and is close to signing a new deal for the Wimbledon rights.

Baseball

Spanish Primera Liga football club Atletico Madrid opted out of its collective-selling deal with other clubs to sign a €52m (£34m) deal with Audiovisual Sport, the rights-pooling company for pay-opera-ors So…