Czech Republic

Increased fees across Central and Eastern Europe helped Infront make a tidy profit on its international rights deal with the Italian Serie A.

Uefa Champions League fees are up in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Kosovo, while a big increase for rights to second and third-tier competitions in Romania mitigated a lower Champions League fee.

The German Football Federation (DFB) has signed a quartet of four-season media rights deals in Europe for its DFB-Pokal club cup competition, while also signing shorter-term deals in an array of other…

LaLiga has secured modest increases in its latest deals across Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia but it saw its value drop in Romania after a protracted bidding process.

Saran Media Group has acquired international basketball rights in Turkey, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from Fiba, continuing the latter’s series of deals announced in Europe.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has continued its rights drive in Europe by striking deals in the Baltics, Poland and the Czech Republic

AMC Networks International has secured rights to the Slovak national football team’s matches until 2028, along with third-party Uefa national team rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Czech public-service broadcaster Česká Televize has retained rights to Uefa men’s national team competitions during the 2022-28 cycle.

Telecoms operator Vodafone has bolstered its sports offering in the Czech Republic by agreeing a carriage deal with commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport

Czech pay-television platform Telly has withdrawn all but one Digi Sport channel from its offering, with the football content available in its sports package to instead focus on the Premier Sport and Nova…

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport has launched two new sports channels after adding a raft of premium football content to its offering in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The Saran Media Group has secured media rights to Italian football's Serie A across 17 countries spanning the Commonwealth of Independent States region, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the three seasons…

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has extended its rights in France to the Premier League, while it will also broadcast the English club football competition in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport has renewed an agreement in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for coverage of the MotoGP motorcycling series

Pay-television broadcaster O2 has retained domestic broadcast rights to the Czech First League for another two seasons in an agreement that will end free-to-air coverage on public broadcaster Česká Televize.

Sportway, the automated production and live streaming firm, has added the Czech Ice Hockey Association as its latest client in the first step of its international expansion outside of the Nordic markets

Broadcasters in a total of 18 different European and Central Asian countries must submit their bids in the second week of June for a suite of Uefa men’s national team rights during the 2022-28 cycle.

Broadcast rights to Italian football’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana from 2021-22 to 2023-24 have been acquired by a string of agencies and broadcasters in different international markets.