Austria

In its haste to exit the UK, ESPN may have missed an opportunity with its ESPN America channel

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has acquired the rights to the Samsung Cup, Austrian football’s domestic club knockout competition, in a three-year deal running from the 2013-14 to 2015-16 season.

The Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EHL) has agreed a three-year extension to its exclusive broadcast rights deal with the Sportsman Media Group.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF is considering not renewing Formula One rights beyond 2014 due to cost-cutting measures.

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences for the recent Alpine World Ski Championships in key European markets

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EBU chances of keeping hold of biathlon depend on ARD/ZDF as RTL eyes rights in Germany

Cable-television broadcaster Kabel Eins has retained live rights for the ADAC GT Masters motor-racing series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The deal will run for two years, from 2013 to 2014

Sky Deutschland has agreed a deal with Perform that will allow the digital sports company’s ePlayer video-on-demand service to show selected content from the pay-television broadcaster’s sports channels in …

The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has told Sky Austria that it is not allowed to charge rival broadcasters for using clips of the pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of football mat…

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF and pay-television operator Sky Deutschland have retained live domestic rights to the Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country

IMG and Sportfive move on growing digital rights market

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has renewed its rights deal for American football’s National Football League for the forthcoming season.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has said it will walk away from showing live coverage of the Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country, unless it can retain its rights for…

This week’s BBC deal for the rights to four editions of the Olympic Games has taken the International Olympic Committee to $1.0