http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/07/commentary/column_sportsbiz/sportsbiz/index.htm A little late (just seen it today). Kinda interesting. Major League Baseball, owing to the success of Japanese players like the New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui, just signed a reported $275 million, six-year deal to broadcast games in Japan, about 15 times what the current deal is worth Of course after this 6 years contract, unless a new Japanese star is on the team, the deal would plunge back down tenfolds. Other interesting facts (though didn't discuss soccer) were about NFL, NBA and NHL. All of which the writer didn't think will get much in term of TV money oversea. Also, Foremost among the challenges faced by U.S. sports is that no other country throws the kind of money at broadcasting rights that U.S. networks do. For the most recent Olympics, for example, NBC paid $545 million for U.S. rights -- about three times the fees generated across the rest of the world He mentioned U.S. sports (not U.S. leagues), so he is kinda wrong there. There is one sport that could gain the $$$ oversea contract, but of course unless MLS becomes the NASL it will be at least decades from now before they can get the talents to become one of the best league in the world. p.s. Interesting to see that NBC paid 545 mil for the Olympic and the rest of the world pays only 1/3 that.