South Korea

Football
Africa

Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Cricket
Asia

Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets
Football
Argentina

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Football
Asia

ABU failed to draw enough support from its larger members to submit a bid.
American Football
Asia

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…
Athletics
Asia

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Cricket
Asia

Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Football
Asia

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group
Golf
Asia

Pay-television newcomers Setanta in the UK and Arena in Germany are bidding strongly for US golf rights against the established pay-operators in their countries.

Football
Asia

Korean broadcaster which went it alone seeks to recoup rights costs
Athletics
Asia

Athletics: The Dentsu agency, acting on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations, brokered three-year deals with broadcasters in China, Korea and New Zealand covering the 2007 and…
Football
Asia

Anxious wait to see whether state broadcaster CCTV will finally pay market rates
Football
Albania

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Golf
Asia

The Ladies Professional Golf Association tour is bringing in the bulk of its television-rights fees from Asia
Asia

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Tennis
Asia

The International Tennis Federation has signed several television rights deals in Asia for Davis and Fed Cup tennis.
Asia

The International Olympic Committee is hoping for a huge jump in television rights-fees from Korea for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics.
Asia

The IOC will travel to South Korea to start preliminary talks about the broadcast rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games.