Eastern Europe

Football

Football: Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera acquired the
Athletics

Athletics: The International Association of Athletics Federations secured deals for the 2011 World Championships and other events in the Netherlands, Iceland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Albania, Croatia…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed free-to-air rights deals in Portugal for Euro 2012 with public-service broadcaster RTP and commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI.
Football

Italy games heading for pay-TV
Football

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

Athletics

IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain
Football

Football: Benfica TV, the club channel of Portuguese Liga club Benfica, acquired rights for 180 matches featuring a range of clubs and national teams taking place between now and December 2011
Football

Fastrack: EBU and Infront battle for Austrian ski rights; Thai pay-TV battle boosts Uefa; Polish league has no free-to-air deal
Football

Football: Korean media group SBS acquired the rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in a deal worth between $180m (€124m) and $200m (see story this issue).
Athletics

EBU’s Euro 2012 subsidiary in talks ... IAAF still needs to close big deals ... More increases for Uefa
Football

Five-year deal helps NHL to big increase but 'it could have made more,' one bidder says

Football

Football: Israeli pay-television broadcaster Charlton acquired the rights for Euro 2012 in a deal with Uefa
Football

Football: France’s football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, sold the domestic rights to the top division, Ligue 1, for four years, 2012-13 to 2015-16, to pay-television operator Canal Plus a…
Football

Football: SNTV, the sports news agency operated by the IMG agency and The Associated Press, has acquired non-exclusive news clip rights outside Europe for the Confederation of African Football’s Africa C…
Football

Football: Italy’s top football league, Lega Serie A, sold its domestic live rights for three seasons from 2012-13 for €829m ($1.136bn) per year. Sa
Rugby Union

Olympic Games: Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 acquired the television, internet and mobile rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics in a deal with the Sportfive…
Football

Football: The Brazil-based Traffic Sports agency concluded media rights deals for the 2011 Copa America in Paraguay, Canada and Belgium and in more than 50 countries with YouTube (see page this issue)
Tennis

MP & Silva pays 50-per-cent increase for French Open rights and gives free-to-air coverage guarantees