Balkans

Macedonian free-to-air broadcaster Alfa TV has agreed a two-year deal with EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, for the broadcast rights to the Champions League and Women’s Champions League club competitions.

The IEC in Sports agency has announced rights deals for the 2013 World Fly Fishing Championship with pay-television broadcasters in Croatia, Israel and Chile.

Nova Broadcasting Group, part of multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group, has launched a new high definition sports channel in Bulgaria, according to the Broadband TV News website.

Pan-Balkan pay-television broadcaster SportKlub has extended a rights deal for the English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, in a deal with the IMG Media agency

Albanian free-to-air broadcaster Top Channel has acquired rights for Formula One motor-racing in a two-year deal for the 2013 and 2014 seasons

Latest Premier League deals

First European deals point to increase despite some drops

The Multimedia Sports agency (MMS) is understood to have acquired the media rights in Romania for English Premier League football in 2013-14 to 2015-16

The English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, has not launched a sales process yet for its next cycle of rights in Albania due to concerns about piracy problems in the country

Bulgarian telecommunications company Bulsatcom has lost the rights to broadcast games from the Bulgarian A Football Group, the top division of Bulgarian football, according to the Novinite news agency

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

Sportfive, left reeling by Uefa snub, says 'not at any price'

Dip in second-party World Cup qualifier values in key markets

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed deals in Albania with commercial broadcaster Vizion Plus and pay-television broadcaster Tring TV for the Europa League from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Italian volleyball goes global

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed deals in Albania for the Champions League and in Georgia for the Champions League and Europa League, for the three seasons from 2012-13 to 2014-15.