Volleyball

Cricket
Middle East

New channels face competition from satellite operators ADD, Showtime, Orbit, and free-to-air MBC
Basketball
Belgium

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

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Boxing
Asia

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…
Athletics
Denmark

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Bobsleigh/skeleton
France

Rugby union: Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the live rights for English international and domestic rugby in a five-year deal, 2005-06 to 2009-10, with the Rugby Football Union, the sport’s national governing body, and Premier Rugby, the umbrella body of the country’s top-tier clubs.

Athletics
Europe

Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
Athletics
Australia

Athletics: UK pay-broadcaster Setanta extended a deal for the Golden League series in 2008 and 2009.  The deal was brokered by the IMG agency.
Badminton
Europe

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against the Italian government over the use by the country’s broadcasters of mini-advertisements during the televising of football matches.

Badminton
Asia

Five provincial channels pool resources and sports content in new joint-venture channel
Boxing
Africa

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) - …
Football
Africa

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m
American Football
Australia

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.

American Football
Asia

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.

American Football
Europe

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

Baseball
Central America

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.

Volleyball
Europe

Volleyball’s surging popularity in Poland helped pan regional cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport record its highest-ever audience last weekend.

Football
Europe

Greek monopoly pay-operator NetMed Hellas is facing a challenge from the launch of digital-terrestrial and internet television.