Tennis

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

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta acquired the rights to the US PGA Tour in a six-year deal, from 2007 to 2012.

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro signed a deal worth close to €100m (£68m) per season from 2009-10 to 2013-14, for the television rights of the G-30, the group of 25 first and second division Liga fo…

Olympics: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired the rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in a $18m (£9m/ €13m) deal with the International Ol…

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011

Broadcaster reduces coverage on flagship channel, despite rise of Spanish star

EBU facing competition from IMG, Sportfive, IEC in Sports

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…

Basketball: Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live rights for the Euroleague in a three-year deal, from 2005-06 to 2007-08, with the Bonivest agency, which brokered the deal on behalf of Euroleague Basketball.

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Formula 1: Spanish sports agency Mediapro acquired the rights for Formula 1 in a five-year deal, 2009 to 2013, in a deal thought to be worth about €35m (£24m) a year.

Football: Pay-operator Premiere acquired the Austrian pay-television rights for the top two domestic leagues, the Bundesliga and the Zac Erste division, in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10