Middle East

Cricket
Asia

Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets
Basketball
Asia

Tennis: US network NBC and cable broadcaster ESPN are set to acquire the rights for the Wimbledon tournament in two separate four-year deals, 2008 to 2011
Football
Australia

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
Israel

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

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

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Football
Israel

The Israeli Football Association has agreed three deals for the rights for the Israeli Premier League starting in the forthcoming season

Football
Israel

Israeli pay-per-view company and agency Charlton has started talks with companies in the Israeli market
Basketball
Argentina

Football: Jamaican commercial broadcaster CVM TV sublicensed rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cup competitions from Caribbean sports cable operator SportsMax
Football
Israel

New rights an enticement for Sports Channel subscribers to switch to Charlton

Football
Asia

Football: Pay-operator Premiere acquired the Austrian pay-television rights for the top two domestic leagues, the Bundesliga and the Zac Erste division, in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Baseball
Asia

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

Football
Austria

Football: Caribbean sports cable channel SportsMax acquired the free-to-air and pay-television rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014 in a deal worth $18m (£9.3m/€13.7m). 
Football
Argentina

TV Azteca and Televisa have unofficially agreed not to compete for football

Football
Israel

Israeli pay-per-view company and agency Charlton is to end its television-rights deal for the Israeli Premier League a year early

Cricket
Albania

Cricket:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan was awarded the domestic rights to the upcoming India v Pakistan series by the Madras High Court, which was ruling on the case brought by Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms.
Bahrain

Formula One television rights fees in the Middle East are set to triple
Football
Australia

·   Football: The Dentsu and Infront agencies acquired the Rest of Asia rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in a deal with Fifa, football’s world governing body.  De