South Africa
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Snooker, cricket, tennis, cycling and others
Snooker: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC renewed its deal with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for a further five years, from 2007 to 2011, paying about £20m (€29m). The deal is thought to be a significant cut on the existing deal, worth about £28m over a five-and-a-half year period.
SABC faces hard task to get change in listed events
Call by public-service broadcaster SABC to change the country’s listed-events law
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, rugby union, motorsport and more
Football: South African public-service broadcaster SABC acquired a package of free-to-air rights for English football’s Premier League in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10.
IOC eyes high rising Hong Kong
The IOC will also start separate talks this spring in Hong Kong, a rights territory which, like China, has been treated as part of the ABU deal until now
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football and others
Football: Russia’s Premier League is set to sign a three-year deal worth $17m (£9m/€13m) a season for its rights from the 2005 season with the Fedcom-media agency
TV Rights Clips 2: Motorsport, baseball, cricket and new media
Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.
League thinks early tender will lift rights fees
South Africa’s Premier Soccer League wants to renew its domestic television rights deal a year early to bring in a higher fee.
Super is no longer only word for African pay-TV
Africa’s television sports-rights market showing signs of strong growth.
Cricket fees rise as CSI fights to retain deals
Australian, English, South African, New Zealand, Zimbabwean boards to benefit from new Asian television rights deals.