Eastern Europe

Football
Media

The Ligové Fotbalové Asociace, the Czech league football association, has launched its domestic media rights tender for the next five-year cycle, covering the elite Fortuna Liga and second-tier Fortuna N…
Football
Media

Fans in Albania were able to watch action from the opening weekend of the Italian Serie A season after deals were negotiated with pay-TV broadcasters Digitalb and Tring
Multiple Sports

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA will pay more than €30m for Uefa national team rights over the 2022-23 to 2027-28 cycle, it can be revealed.
Motorsport

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA has more than doubled its Formula 1 rights spending over the last six years, helping to enshrine the country’s place on the F1 calendar.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Marek Szkolnikowski is to leave his role as Head of Sports at Polish public-service broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) after more than seven years in the position
Handball
Media

United Media has secured exclusive rights to Germany’s Handball Bundesliga for its Sportklub pay-television channels in the Balkans.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Czech investment company PPF Group has bought a 6.3-per-cent stake in Viaplay Group as the embattled streaming broadcaster continues to shift equity
Football

The Ukrainian Premier League has abandoned hopes of creating a centralised broadcast rights pool for the 2023-24 season, but the majority of top-flight clubs are pressing ahead with an ambitious a la carte streaming project.
Road Cycling
Media

One of the most intense head-to-head battles in recent years in road cycling had the knock-on effect of producing stellar television ratings for this year’s Tour de France in the three key contributing m…
Football
Media

The Albanian Football Association (FSHF) has launched an invitation to tender for domestic media rights to club competitions for the 2023-24 to 2025-26 seasons after being forced to go back into the market
Football
Media

One of the opening matches of the new Polish Ekstraklasa season will be shown on YouTube in Poland, as talks between the league's domestic broadcaster Canal Plus and TVP have failed to produce a free-to-air…
Basketball
Media

United Media has further strengthened the basketball portfolio of its Balkans pay-television broadcaster, Sportklub, by agreeing a multi-year deal with the Asociación de Clubes Españoles de Baloncesto f…
Basketball

Euroleague Basketball has increased its media rights revenues in the Baltics through a new arrangement with media group TV3 and public-service broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT).
Motorsport
Media

Multi-platform subscription broadcaster DAZN has acquired rights to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, GT Masters and GT4 Germany touring cars series in eight markets
Football
Media

Setanta Sports, the pay-television broadcaster, has secured rights in a host of European and Asian countries to Game4Ukraine, the charity football match being played in London next month
Football

The value of the English Premier League’s media rights in Hungary steadily increased over the last two cycles, SportBusiness Media has learned.
Football
Media

The Albanian Football Association (FSHF) has terminated a domestic broadcast rights agreement with streaming platform Oversport just one year into a three-season deal
Motorcycling
Media

United Media has extended its exclusive MotoGP media rights in the Balkans as part of a new “multi-year” agreement with the motorcycling championship.