Austria

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired live rights for Major League Baseball games in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has said it will submit an offer for rights to the Uefa Champions League across the next window for the club football competition, amid concerns over the impact of cost-cutting measures at the company.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to the 2017 World Games multi-sport event in a deal the International World Games Association hopes will provide a template for other European markets.

Servus TV, the commercial broadcaster owned by the Red Bull Media House division of Red Bull, has acquired rights for the Superbike World Championship.

The PULS 4 division of German media group ProSiebenSat.1 Media has agreed a takeover deal for Austrian commercial broadcaster ATV.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed a rights deal for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in its home country, along with Austria and Switzerland.

DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service operated by digital media specialist Perform, has acquired rights for the Davis Cup and Fed Cup men’s and women’s tennis tournaments.

German bank Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) took the unusual step of acquiring International Handball Federation World Championship media rights this month.

German pay-television broadcaster Sky triggered a clause to renew EHF Champions League rights late last year, extending its deal until 2019-20.

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed rights deals in Austria and Switzerland, along with three other German-speaking markets, with pay-television broadcaster Sky, international sports broadcaster Eurosport and DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service operated by digital media specialist Perform.

The World Rally Championship last week earned a small increase from sports broadcaster Sport1 for its rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has agreed a two-year extension to its rights deal for the World Rally Championship motorsport series.

Pay-television channel Motorvision TV has extended a rights deal with the Nascar North American stock car-racing series.

Online streaming website Spox.com, owned by digital sports media company Perform, will launch in Austria in partnership with the Styria Media Group on December 13.

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky is becoming more selective about what sports rights it seeks as it focuses more on entertainment content amid shifting viewing habits, according to chief executive Jeremy Darroch.

Media company CSI Sports, the owner of Fight Sports, has struck a distribution deal for the pay-television channel with DAZN, the recently-launched OTT service operated by digital-media company Perform.