Middle East

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Football: The English Premier League signed a number of deals in several territories for its television rights for the the three seasons from 2007-08 to 2009-10

English football’s Premier League began its international audiovisual rights sales in dramatic style with massive first-round awards in three of its most competitive markets.

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.

Olympics: The Arab States Broadcasting Union, representing the region's free-to-air broadcasters, acquired the rights for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in a deal worth $21m (£11m/€16.7m) with the International Olympic Committee.