Eastern Europe

The English Premier League has confirmed it has awarded rights to the Multi Media Sports agency in Spain and Romania, and the Advisers Media International agency in Czech Republic and Slovakia

The English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, has awarded rights in Russia to pay-television broadcaster NTV-Plus and in Ukraine to the MP & Silva agency

First European deals point to increase despite some drops

Market so bad in Spain that Telecinco expects to make

The Polish football league, the Ekstraklasa, has applied for a licence to launch a television channel in Poland

The Multimedia Sports agency (MMS) is understood to have acquired the media rights in Romania for English Premier League football in 2013-14 to 2015-16

Pay-television broadcaster Digi is understood to have won the rights in Hungary for the English Premier League in 2013-14 to 2015-16

The English Premier League, the top division of football in the country, has not launched a sales process yet for its next cycle of rights in Albania due to concerns about piracy problems in the country

Bulgarian telecommunications company Bulsatcom has lost the rights to broadcast games from the Bulgarian A Football Group, the top division of Bulgarian football, according to the Novinite news agency

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has acquired rights for tournaments operated by the Women’s Tennis Association, the leading professional women’s tennis tour, according to the Tenis.net.pl

Polish cable-television operator Multimedia Polska has agreed carriage deals for pay-television sports channels Eurosport 2 HD and FightBox

Medge looks for premier League bridge into Polish TV market; NC Plus closes in on speedway

Dutaret says events business can grow despite the crisis

European football’s governing body Uefa has agreed a deal for the rights in Moldova for the Champions League tournament in the 2012-13 to 2014-15 period with commercial broadcaster Prime.

Polish pay-television operator Polsat acquired domestic rights for Poland national team football matches in a deal with the Sportfive agency