Middle East

Athletics
Algeria

Athletics: UK public-service broad-caster the BBC extended its deal for domestic athletics events for a further six years, from 2009 to 2014
Football
Africa

Football: The African Union of Broadcasters signed a deal with Fifa for the English, French and Portuguese-language television and radio rights to the 2010 World Cup.

Football
Argentina

Globo said that it was in talks with the Team Marketing agency about the possibility of acquiring rights for European football’s Champions League competition from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Football
Belgium

Football: Greek commercial broadcaster Antenna acquired the rights for top Greek club Olympiacos’ home first round match in the Uefa Cup and its two home group stage matches, paying €1.605m (£1.25m)
Football
Middle East

A planned media auction for the live broadcast rights for the United Arab Emirates’ newly-formed top-tier domestic football league, the Pro League, never got off the ground
Athletics
Africa

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

Cycling
Asia

Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.

Tennis
Middle East

A new potential bidder for the Middle East rights for Wimbledon and Australian Open tennis emerged last week.

Football
Asia

Football fans in the Middle East have had a battle to access Al Jazeera Sport’s coverage of Euro 2008.

Football
Asia

Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired the rights for all 64 matches of football’s 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency.
Cricket
Asia

Indian government approves Pakistan cricket matches, Ten looking at as much as $18m ad revenue

Basketball
Croatia

Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute
Football
Africa

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Cricket
Middle East

New channels face competition from satellite operators ADD, Showtime, Orbit, and free-to-air MBC
Cricket
Asia

Carriage deal with ADD guarantees an immediate source of revenue and minimum fee per subscriber
Basketball
Middle East

Channel to be broadcast free via satellite throughout Middle East
Badminton
Asia

The international badminton federation said this week that it has brought in higher television-rights fees and better worldwide exposure for its top events this year.

Football
Asia

Football:  German pay-television broadcaster Premiere acquired the rights for German football’s Bundesliga for the next two seasons paying €355m (£235 million) – €175m for 2004-05 and €180m for 2005-06…