Eastern Europe

Ice Hockey

Liberty Global-owned broadcaster Chello Central Europe has renewed rights for Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the next three years, from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

Slovakian public-service broadcaster Slovak Television has been granted a licence to operate a second sports channel by the country’s Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission.

Basketball

Fiba, Euroleague and other basketball rights-holders pool rights for B2C web offering

Football

DigitAlb has renewed exclusive rights in Kosovo for live coverage of the English Premier League.

Football

Pan-Balkan pay-television broadcaster SportKlub has extended a rights deal for the English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, in a deal with the IMG Media agency

Romanian public-service broadcaster TVR is understood to be in advanced discussions with the Sportfive agency to acquire rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympics

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has confirmed that it will show exclusive live coverage of the Polish Speedway Pairs event in 54 countries. The event will take place on June 8 in Toruń, Poland.
Football

The Polish football league, the Ekstraklasa, has agreed a domestic rights deal with NC Plus, the pay-television platform formed through the merger last year of pay-television operators Cyfra Plus and N
Skiing

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences for the recent Alpine World Ski Championships in key European markets
Basketball

ASO, as usual, holds the key to planned cycling shake-up
Football

ARD/ZDF could yet join EBU qualifiers deal

Albanian free-to-air broadcaster Top Channel has acquired rights for Formula One motor-racing in a two-year deal for the 2013 and 2014 seasons
Football

Poland’s media regulator, the KRRiT, has said that digital-satellite platform Cyfrowy Polsat may have contravened the country’s laws when it broadcast coverage of two football matches on pay-television in …

Slovakian broadcaster Slovak Sport
Football

Polish pay-television broadcaster Orange Sport has acquired exclusive rights in the country for the English FA Cup knockout football tournament and England national football team home matches
Cycling

Rai pays less for Giro rights and more for production, but the real money will be made abroad
Tennis

Belarusian public-service broadcaster TVR has acquired rights for tournaments operated by the Women’s Tennis Association, which operates the leading professional women’s tennis tour.
Football

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed