Czech Republic

Tennis

The International Tennis Federation has signed new multi-year broadcast rights deals in Australia, Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic ahead of the start of the Davis Cup national team tournament’s World Group first round this weekend.

Football

Telecommunications company O2 has acquired the broadcast rights for the next three seasons of the Uefa Champions League club football competition in the Czech Republic.

Football

European football’s governing body Uefa has reached an agreement with public-service broadcaster Česká Televize for the broadcasting rights to its 2015 European Under-21 Championship in host nation the Czech Republic.

Basketball

Media rights income for Euroleague basketball is likely to be about the same in the 2014-15 season as it was last season, partly due to difficulties in Russia, one of the sport’s key markets.

Basketball

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, Czech Republic public-service broadcaster Czech TV and Slovakian pay-television broadcaster Slovak Sport have acquired rights for the Euroleague Basketball club competition.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Digi will launch three new sports channels in Slovakia.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Digi has acquired rights for football’s English Premier League in the Czech Republic, according to the Sport.cz news website.

Football

The Pragosport agency is understood to have broken even on its deal for the Czech football league following two broadcast deals it agreed at the end of last month.

Football

The Pragosport agency has awarded rights for the Synot Liga, the newly-named top tier of football in Czech Republic, to public-service broadcaster Czech Television and pay-television broadcaster Slovak Sport.

Ice Hockey

Sport1’s deal last week for the rights to the National Hockey League means the sports broadcaster now has exclusive rights to each of the four top North American sports leagues.

Minor Sports

The IMG Media agency has signed a long-term multi-platform distribution agreement with European television provider M7 Group which will result in action sports and lifestyle channel Edgesport being afforded a platform on the continent.

Ice Hockey

Digital sports media service SlovakSport.TV has acquired exclusive rights in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for the inaugural season of the Champions Hockey League European club ice hockey tournament.

Football

Pragosport deal is boost for Czech football league

Football

The Pragosport agency has acquired domestic rights for the Gambrinus Liga, the Czech Republic’s top division of football.

Football

The Liberty Global media company's European satellite-television arm, UPC DTH, has agreed a deal for the Slovak Sport.TV2 pay-television channel deal to be carried on its freeSAT Plus service in Czech Republic.

Olympics

Czech Republic commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova has agreed a rights-sharing deal involving the 2014 winter Olympic Games with public-service broadcaster Czech TV.

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has signed media rights agreements for the European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team competitions in the territories of Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Football

The CAA Eleven agency has launched invitations to tender for the media rights to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments in four eastern European territories.