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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Motorsport, baseball, cricket and new media
Motorsport: German pay-broad-caster Premiere acquired the exclusive live rights for US motor racing’s Nascar and Indycar series for the 2006 season.
TV RIGHTS 2: New Media round-up, baseball, rugby, tennis
Football: French mobile operator Orange acquired the mobile phone rights to France’s Ligue 1 in a two-year deal, covering the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.
TV RIGHTS CLIP 1: Football, Olympics, motor racing and others
Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
TV RIGHTS 1: World Cup, Euro 2008, F1, golf, cricket and more
Football: SBS International, the acquisition arm of Korean private free-to-air broadcaster SBS, acquired the rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, baseball, golf, Aussie Rules and more
Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.
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TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Major League baseball, basketball and more
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.
French, German league football will top 2008 list
NBA, Kirch and UK the biggest TV payers in 2007
The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Athletics, cricket, motorsport, golf and more
Cricket: Asian pay-broadcaster Zee Sports acquired the Indian cable and satellite rights to India’s three-Test series against Sri Lanka in a deal with the newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: US sports, tennis, cricket, rugby and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: US Sports, cricket, rugby, motorsports
Baseball: US cable broadcaster ESPN renewed its long-term deal for Major League Baseball, paying $2.368bn (£1.3bn/€1.9bn) over eight years, from 2006 to 2013.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Figure-skating, basketball, baseball and more
MLB may launch own network if rights talks fail
Major League Baseball is considering the launch of its own cable network to broadcast games covered by its main television-rights package.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice-hockey, baseball, basketball and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics, cricket, tennis, motorsport and more
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, basketball, motor sport and others
Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.