MENA

American Football
Asia

Ice Hockey: The US National Hockey League signed a two-year deal with the NBC network, with an option to renew for a further two years
Basketball
Albania

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Basketball
Israel

JCS Sports, which owns Israel’s two sports channels, has acquired the rights for top Israeli football and basketball matches

Basketball
Europe

Horseracing: Two rival dedicated cable and satellite horseracing channels could be launched in the UK within the next month with the country’s racecourses split evenly between the two new ventures. 
Israel

The tender for control of Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 2 was launched last week
Football
Israel

Israeli public-service broadcaster Channel 1 is close to agreeing a deal with the Sportfive agency
Basketball
Israel

Israeli pay-per-view company Charlton is set to sign deals with Israeli broadcasters
Football
Israel

The Israeli Cable Council, a government agency, gave approval this week for pay-per-view company Charlton to televise Israeli football’s Premier League and the English Premier League

Football
Israel

Immense government and public pressure for the team’s other away matches to be covered.
Football
Israel

Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 10 acquired the rights for one Israeli Premier League football match per week in a sublicensing deal with Israeli pay-per-view company and rights agency Charlton TV.
Israel

Aviv Giladi, head of a growing Israeli television empire, last week took over JCS Sports, which owns the country’s two sports channels, the cable and satellite Sport 5 and Sport 5 Plus

Basketball
Africa

Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency.  In Ghana, state broadcaster GTV acquired the rights for €1m (£686,000).

Football
Australia

Football: Pay-operator Setanta Sports agreed a four-year extension deal with the Scottish Premier League.

Football
Israel

Israeli commercial broadcaster Channel 10 acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup final, paying $700,000.

Cricket
Africa

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.

Cricket
Europe

The Nimbus Sport agency looks set to make a profit on the international rights for Indian cricket.
Israel

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

Cricket
Asia

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.