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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…

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.

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 

Football: The England Football Association agreed deals for its international rights covering the fouryear period from 2008-09 to 2011-12, bringing in worldwide revenues of over $300m (£144m/€207m) - …

Cricket: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired the rights to this month's Champions Trophy and the 2007 World Cup in a deal with News Corporation subsidiary Global Cricket Corporation.

BBC’s cricket bid hangs on Sky and Champions League T

American Football:  UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the UK and Ireland rights for the National Football League in a four-year deal from 2007-08 to 2010-11.

Football: Japanese pay-television operator J Sports acquired the rights to Japan’s top-tier J-League in a five-year deal from 2007 to 2011.

The emergence of Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal is responsible for a fierce three-way battle for the Spanish rights for tennis’s Masters series.

World Wrestling Entertainment takes its Asian television rights sales in-house

Rugby Union: Pay-broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for South Africa’s domestic Currie Cup competition and home Test matches outside the Tri-Nations tournament.

Indian sports broadcaster Neo will pay a combined $130,000 (£66,000/ €88,000) a year in the two deals it signed this week for the Women’s Tennis Association Tour and Davis and Fed Cup tennis.

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

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.

Free-to-air television audiences in French-speaking Belgium were deprived of seeing home star Justine Henin-Hardenne’s progress to the quarter-finals of this year’s Australian Open