Israel

Middle East broadcaster Al Jazeera Sport has acquired the region’s television rights for Formula One in a last-minute deal.

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

Football: Polish pay-television operator Canal Plus acquired the main package of Serie A rights for the three years from 2007-08 to 2009-10 in a deal with the Media Partners and Silva agency.

International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent

Football: The threatened delay to the start of the Serie B season in Italy was averted when Rupert Murdoch’s satellite platform, Sky Italia, signed a last-minute, one-season deal to broadcast all Serie B matches live.

Nordic alliances, Royal League dead, bid for Israel's Sports Channel, Record Canadian Audiences for English Premier League

Football: The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball-Liga, agreed a deal with Leo Kirch that guarantees the 36 Bundesliga clubs a minimum of €575m a season for the six years from 2009-10 to 2014-15. 

Football: Spanish agency Mediapro made a seven-year offer worth €1.19bn (£815m), or €170m a season, for the television rights to Spanish Primera Liga club Real Madrid covering the seasons from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

The Israeli Football Association generated a good increase in television-rights fees for the domestic football league.

Rights-seller Pitch International would prefer to see the match go untelevised rather than set a “dangerous precedent” of accepting a poor offer

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

The Sportfive agency has agreed deals for Euro 2008 in Israel and Flemish-speaking Belgium

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

Israeli pay-per-view company Charlton has won another battle in the war with the Sport 5 pay-channels

Israeli pay-broadcaster Sport 5 is set to sign a deal for the Champions League rights from 2006-07