Eastern Europe

Football

Polish pay-television operator Polsat has acquired rights for national football team qualifying matches, including those featuring the Poland team, for the Uefa Euro 2016 and Fifa 2018 World Cup tournaments, as well as rights for the finals of Euro 2016 in France.

Football

The Polish football league, the Ekstraklasa, is investigating the possibility of launching its own television channel, according to Polish media reports.

Football

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a two-year extension, covering the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, to its rights deal for German football’s Bundesliga across 22 territories in the Nordic region as well as central and eastern Europe.

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

Estonian public-service broadcaster ERR is seeking a buyer for its rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup football tournament after electing to concentrate its resources on next year’s winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

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

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has invited bids for the media rights in Poland and Russia to the Euro 2016 national team competition.

Handball

MP & Silva brings handball Champions League rights sales to a close with new deals

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.

Handball

Macedonian free-to-air broadcaster Alfa TV has agreed a two-year deal with EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, for the broadcast rights to the Champions League and Women’s Champions League club competitions.

Handball

EHF Marketing, the marketing arm of the European Handball Federation, has agreed a two‐year broadcast deal with Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus.

New Slovakia sports channel Slovak Sport TV3 will be launched next month on terrestrial television and online.

Football

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has extended its exclusive rights to English Premier League football in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on all platforms for three seasons, from the 2013-14 season to 2015-16.

Fishing

The IEC in Sports agency has announced rights deals for the 2013 World Fly Fishing Championship with pay-television broadcasters in Croatia, Israel and Chile.

Football

The Prokuratura Generalna, Poland’s General Public Prosecutor’s Office, has ruled that digital-satellite platform Cyfrowy Polsat did not break the law when it broadcast two Poland national team football matches on a pay-per-view basis last year, according to the Broadband TV News website.

Football

Nova Broadcasting Group, part of multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group, has launched a new high definition sports channel in Bulgaria, according to the Broadband TV News website.

Football

Leading Polish Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznan is set to be provided with the country’s first television channel dedicated to a football team, through a partnership with telecommunications company Inea.

Mixed Martial Arts

Pay-television sports broadcaster Setanta Sports Eurasia has agreed a rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts series.