Tennis

Cricket
Europe

Celtic unions were worried that switching to commercial broadcaster would have placed into doubt BBC coverage of Autumn Internationals
Football
Africa

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV said that it was interested in acquiring a package of eight live Premier League matches a season from satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting as long as the…
Athletics
Poland

Poland's TV4 purchases rights - BMW, Allianz and Castrol pay the fee
Athletics
Hungary

Football rights to be used to transform cable entertainment channel into a sports channel
American Football
Asia

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 
Cricket
France

Football: French pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the exclusive live rights and a highlights package for the French football league in a three-year deal

Tennis
Europe

The acquisition by German sports channel DSF of the exclusive live rights for the Wimbledon tennis championship from next year is a further indication of the way in which public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF are withdrawing from coverage of the sport.
Tennis
Australia

Tennis’s French and Australian Opens are facing the strong possibility of significant cuts in their European television rights fees.
Cycling
Belgium

Belgian commercial channel VT4, owned by SBS Broadcasting, is setting up a sports department

Handball
France

Ice hockey: US network NBC agreed a one-year extension to its revenue-sharing deal with the National Hockey League, through to the end of the 2008-09 season
Air Racing
Australia

Olympics: Australian telecoms provider Telstra agreed a A$9m (£4.2m/ €5.3m) deal with Seven Media Group to show exclusive live coverage of the Beijing Olympics on its BigPond mobile service. 
Football
Canada

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency.  It is the first deal done for the championship.  Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is also set to sign a deal for Euro 2008, paying €120m.

Football
Europe

February 11-March 12: Team Marketing, Uefa’s Champions League sales agent, launched a tender on February 11 for the next three year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.
Badminton
Asia

Five provincial channels pool resources and sports content in new joint-venture channel
Football
Europe

Last month witnessed an extraordinary couple of weeks in the UK sports-rights industry
Basketball
Australia

Cricket: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the exclusive rights for the India Premier League, the domestic Twenty20 competition set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, in a five-year deal…
Cricket
Africa

Rugby League: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB and public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights for the top-tier Super League, the second-tier National League, international matches and the Challenge…
Baseball
Asia

Football: French mobile operator Orange acquired the mobile phone rights to France’s Ligue 1 in a two-year deal, covering the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.