Australia

Cricket
Australia

Cricket Australia has surprised television sports experts by not going out to tender when it awarded exclusive rights for Australian cricket to Nine network
Basketball
Australia

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a
Football
Asia

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
Cricket
Australia

Cricket:  Indian pay-television broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television acquired the international rights to this month’s India v Pakistan tour for $11.5m (£6m/€8.7m).

Golf
Australia

Network Ten the only free-to-air bidder for 2007 US Masters
Cricket
Australia

sale of the Australian free-to-air rights for this summer’s England v Australia Ashes cricket series is a blow to pay-broadcaster Fox Sports
Asia

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Australian Rules Football
Australia

Australia’s television networks are gearing up for the first of several fierce rights battles

Football
Australia

·   Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.  De
Australian Rules Football
Australia

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Darts
Europe

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.

Football
Asia

Analysts claim that Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten overpaid for Australian Football League rights

Cricket
Europe

Australian, English, South African, New Zealand, Zimbabwean boards to benefit from new Asian television rights deals.

Football
Asia

Fifa agreed to sell World Cup rights for 2010 and 2014 to Australian public-service broadcaster SBS for only two-thirds the amount it could have got.

Football
Asia

Football’s governing body in Australia hopes to increase television-rights revenue for national team’s matches