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The Saran Media agency has expanded its multi-year partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis Club to take in rights to the Wimbledon Championships in a further nine markets.

European club ice hockey competition the Kontinental Hockey League has strengthened its global footprint with the Ufa Sports agency securing a host of new broadcast rights deals.

Pay-television sports broadcaster Setanta Sports Eurasia has agreed a rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts series.

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) is providing live streaming of the final stages of the 2012 Youth World Boxing Championships on its official YouTube channel

Dip in second-party World Cup qualifier values in key markets

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster Setanta Sports Eurasia has acquired rights for the top domestic football divisions in Italy and France from the MP & Silva agency

Armenian public-service broadcaster Armenia TV has acquired the live free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires

Football: Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera acquired the

Football: Spanish pay-television operator Digital Plus acquired Champions League rights in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

Cricket: Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan said that it would look to share the rights to Indian cricket if it failed to retain its exclusive contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in India

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Football:  Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)

Formula One Management to take over host-broadcasting of Formula One series from this season.