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Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Portuguese pay-television channel Sport TV acquired the rights for football’s 2006 World Cup

The Champions League incumbent broadcasters in Turkey and Portugal have to pay more than last time to hang on to their rights.