Uefa Nations League
Merging M6 and TF1 handed deadline for six-year Uefa national team rights bids
M6 and TF1, the French commercial broadcasters in the process of merging their activities, must lodge their offers for broadcast rights to France’s national team qualifying matches, along with the Uefa E…
Nent adds to armoury in Baltics with Uefa national team rights
Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired a wide-ranging suite of Uefa national team competition rights in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania across the 2022-28 cycle
Eleven retains third-party Qualifiers and Nations League rights in Belgium
Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports has retained third-party rights in Belgium to Uefa European Qualifiers and the Uefa Nations League, acquiring rights through to the beginning of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
NOS continues ‘steady’ approach in Uefa national team renewals
Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has kept fees steady in its latest renewal of Dutch men’s national-team football rights and rights to the Uefa European Championship in 2024.
SRG SSR pays more to seal crucial Uefa national team rights renewal
Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR has ensured it will remain the home of the Swiss men’s football team’s matches in European competition until the end of Uefa Euro 2028.
Uefa national team rights part-sold in Belgium as Wallonia process continues
VRT is set to pay a slight increase for Uefa European Championship rights in Dutch-speaking Belgium, while VTM will keep its rights fee for Belgium’s European Qualifier and Nations League matches in the region flat until the end of 2025-26.
ORF and Servus battle sees Austrian national team rights value soar
Uefa has significantly increased the value of its national team rights in Austria from 2022-23, capitalising on fierce competition between ORF and Servus TV as the latter continues its sports-rights push.
CAA Eleven goes to market in Greece with Uefa national team rights
Greek broadcasters have been handed a first-round bid deadline of April 27 by which to submit their offers for a suite of Uefa men’s national team rights across the 2022-28 period.
ServusTV dislodges ORF with exclusive European Championships rights deal
ServusTV, the commercial free-to-air broadcaster in German-speaking countries, has made arguably its most high-profile rights acquisition to date in Austria in an exclusive deal for Uefa European Championship…
CAA Eleven launches Uefa national teams rights tender in Austria
The CAA Eleven agency has launched its sales process in Austria for Uefa national team broadcast rights in its first tender of the year
Iceland next up for Uefa national team 2022-28 media-rights sales
The CAA Eleven agency will be looking to secure new Uefa national team broadcast deals in Iceland in the first quarter of 2021 after launching the rights sales process in the Nordic country
Uefa national-team rights value swells in Scandinavia in six-season deals
The value of Uefa’s national-team rights in Scandinavia from 2022-23 has risen sharply, with the European governing body the latest rights-holder to prosper in the region amid a push by broadcasters to seal long-term deals for premium properties.
Uefa national team TV rights on the market in Belgium
The CAA Eleven agency has set a December deadline for broadcast rights in Belgium for Uefa national team rights in the 2022-28 cycle, SportBusiness understands.
Sky nets 2.6m audience peak for Scotland’s Euro 2020 play-off win as paywall removed
Scotland’s win over Serbia in last week’s Euro 2020 play-off attracted a peak audience of 2.6 million viewers in the UK after pay-television operator Sky made the match available on a free-to-air basis.
Uefa makes huge national team gains in Finland amid fierce competition
European football’s governing body Uefa has secured a huge hike in revenues from national-team rights in Finland as public-service broadcaster YLE overcame strong competition to secure a long-term deal.
CAA Eleven goes to market in Poland with Uefa national team rights
The CAA Eleven agency has launched an invitation to tender in Poland for Uefa national team rights in the new 2022-28 cycle, SportBusiness understands
YLE regains Finnish national team rights in six-year Uefa deal
Finnish public-service broadcaster YLE has won back rights to Finland’s national team matches in a wider agreement that also includes the 2024 and 2028 editions of the Uefa European Championship.
TV2 Denmark dislodges Discovery by acquiring all Uefa national team rights
Danish government-owned broadcaster TV2 has picked up a clean sweep of all rights available in the country from the latest Uefa European Qualifiers, Nations League and European Championship invitation…