Eastern Europe

Polish commercial and pay-television broadcaster Polsat has signed a three-year deal for exclusive rights to mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Czech public-service broadcaster Česká Televize has secured a package of rights to competitions organised by Uefa, football’s European governing body.

Public-service broadcaster UA:PBC has acquired rights in Ukraine to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games at a considerable uplift on the cost of the 2014 and 2016 Games.

Czech commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova has extended its rights deal for the Uefa Europa League club football competition.

Serbian sports channel SOS has been put up for sale after its owner, Dragisa Kovačević, said that the state has “no interest” in providing assistance.

European football’s governing body Uefa has launched a tender process for broadcast rights to its Champions League and Europa League club competitions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports will stream live coverage of a German Bundesliga football match on social media platform Facebook this week.

Ukrainian public-service broadcaster UA:PBC has acquired rights for the Olympic Games in a sublicensing deal with media company Discovery Communications.

Croatian telecommunications company Vipnet has acquired domestic rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition.

Video-on-demand service Megogo has made its first move into the Ukrainian sports-rights market with the acquisition of exclusive rights to three top European football leagues.

Uefa has earned a significant increase in the value of its national team rights across Eastern Europe, justifying its decision to sell market-by-market in the region.

Slovakian public-service broadcaster RTVS plans to launch a new sports channel ahead of the country’s staging of the International Ice Hockey Federation’s World Championship in 2019.

Ukrainian video-on-demand service Megogo has acquired rights to the German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A club football competitions.

Polish media group TVN has expanded and revamped its OTT platform with the launch of Player+, its new video-on-demand and live channel offering.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has joined forces with Orange Polska, the Polish arm of telecommunications company Orange, to roll out a 4K service in the country.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has expanded its offering in Poland with the launch of a new channel.