Eastern Europe

Pay-television broadcaster SportKlub has acquired rights in Poland to the 2014-15 season of the Handball-Bundesliga, the top division of handball in Germany.

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

Romanian cable-television operator Romtelecom has sealed a carriage deal for coverage of the domestic football Liga 1 tournament, according to the ZF newspaper.

Romanian cable-television operator Romtelecom has broken off talks to acquire rights for domestic football’s Liga 1 tournament, according to the ZF newspaper.

The Romanian competition authority has launched an investigation into the sale of media rights for the country’s Liga 1 domestic top-tier football tournament.

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.

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster BTV has extended a rights deal in Bulgaria for the Uefa Champions League club football tournament.

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.

Uefa was able to secure a modest increase in rights fee for the Champions League from Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus in its renewal last month, despite there being no rival bids.

Telecommunications company UPC Romania and sister satellite-television broadcaster Focus Sat will be able to show coverage of the domestic Liga 1 top-tier and Cupa Ligii knockout football tournaments after agreeing a carriage deal with media company Intel Sky Broadcasting.

Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus has acquired exclusive rights for the US Open and PGA Championship golf tournaments.

Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus has agreed a three-year deal for the exclusive rights to the Uefa Champions League from the 2015-16 to 2017-18 seasons of the European club football competition.

Invitations to tender have been launched in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for rights to European football qualifiers ahead of the Uefa Euro 2016 and Fifa 2018 World Cup national team tournaments.

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.

The Infront Sport & Media agency has reached a deal for Mir TV to broadcast the 2014 Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship in six markets of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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.