Austria
Sportsman’s offer makes it easy for German league
Sportsman and Red Bull link up to check Sky Deutschland
European Court backs limitations on compensation for ORF news clips
KommAustria, the Austrian media regulator, was justified in limiting the price Sky Austria could charge the country’s public-service broadcaster ORF for using the pay-television broadcaster’s clips of …
ESPN agrees European carriage deals with Liberty platforms
Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed carriage deals for its channels in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands with cable-television operators owned by international telecommunications…
Sportsman completes Spanish football hat-trick with cup rights
The Sportsman Media Group agency acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the final of Spanish football’s domestic cup competition the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa, the a…
Sportsman renews La Liga rights in Germany and Austria
The Sportsman Media Group agency will continue to distribute the rights for Spanish football’s top-tier league, La Liga, in Germany and Austria, after agreeing a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, w…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Horse racing, ice hockey, MMA, Olympics, skiing and more
Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: Euro 2012, Champions League, Ligue 1 and more
Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
ATV acquires Austria national football team rights
Austrian commercial broadcaster ATV surprised the local market by outbidding public-service broadcaster ORF for the rights for the Austrian national football team’s away qualifying matches for the 2014 F…
ORF renews with Austrian Ski Federation
Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF renewed its rights deal with the Österreichischer Skiverband, the Austrian ski federation, for Fédération Internationale de Ski World Cup events, in a five-year de…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Chinese and Italian basketball, curling, hockey and handball
Basketball: US Asian-focused sports network One World Sports acquired exclusive rights for Chinese basketball’s top-tier league, the CBA, in a multi-year deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency, m…
Austria warning for EBU members
EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires
Kentaro hits the jackpot, Sportfive is philosophical
Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw
Déjà vu for Infront as EBU beats it to Austria rights
Infront outbids EBU but loses
IAAF defends its rights strategy despite gaps in Daegu coverage
IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain
Fastrack: Issue 15:14
Fastrack: EBU and Infront battle for Austrian ski rights; Thai pay-TV battle boosts Uefa; Polish league has no free-to-air deal
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, American football, basketball, ice hockey and more
Football: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights to China’s international football teams for three-and-a-half years, from July 23 until the end of 2014, from the Chinese Football Association’s com…
Fastrack: Issue 15:13
EBU’s Euro 2012 subsidiary in talks ... IAAF still needs to close big deals ... More increases for Uefa
EBU loses on free-to-air promises
MP & Silva pays 50-per-cent increase for French Open rights and gives free-to-air coverage guarantees