Eastern Europe

Football
Media

Setanta Sports, the pay-television broadcaster, today (Thursday) announced its intention to terminate a domestic rights deal with the Ukrainian Premier League (UPL) one year into the three-season deal,…
Tennis
Media

The Wimbledon Championships will once again be absent from television screens in Russia this year, as a result of the country's illegal invasion of Ukraine
Football
Media

The sales process for broadcast rights in Hungary to Uefa club competitions across the 2024-27 cycle has started today (Monday)
Basketball
Media

Polish pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Polska has extended and expanded its long-standing rights deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Multiple Sports
Media

Slovakian pay-television broadcaster Joj Sport has launched a new online sports channel, Joj Sport Plus. The new channel will be available on the Joj Play streaming platform
Multiple Sports
Media

The distribution of Setanta Sports channels has been banned in Belarus by the country’s Ministry of Information.
Multiple Sports
Media

Belarusian telecoms operator Beltelecom has added two Setanta Sports Eurasia pay-television channels to its terrestrial television and IPTV services after striking a carriage deal with the pan-regional…
Multiple Sports
Media

Cyfrowy Polsat lost 110,000 subscribers in 2022, according to preliminary financial results released by the Polish commercial broadcaster. Polsat’s sales revenue increased by five per cent to PLN3.4
Basketball
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Polsat has extended its domestic rights to the Polish Basketball League (PLK) until 2030.
Boxing
Media

TV3 Group, the broadcaster in the Baltic region, has extended its exclusive media rights agreement with the UK promoter Boxxer
Basketball

Sportklub retained its Euroleague Basketball rights in the Balkans after agreeing to more than double its fee during private negotiations, bucking a trend that has seen it lose out on key properties to free-spending rival Telekom Srbija.
Multi-sport
Host Broadcast & Production

Mediapro, the broadcast production group and rights agency, has been appointed as the host broadcaster for the 2023 European Games in Kraków and the Małopolska region. The Spain-based group will work with Polish company Festival Group to produce live coverage of the two-week event.
Basketball
Media

Euroleague Basketball has renewed its exclusive rights deals with United Media-owned broadcasters Nova and Sportklub for five more seasons, from 2023-24 to 2027-28.
Ice Hockey
Data

An invitation to tender process has been launched for the domestic, international and betting video rights to the Czech Extraliga, the top ice hockey league in the Czech Republic, covering five seasons…
Motorcycling
Media

Albanian sports broadcaster Tring Sport has renewed its deal with Dorna Sports, the commercial rights-holder for MotoGP, for an additional three years until 2025
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Polish public-service broadcaster Telewizja Polska is to receive PLN2.35bn (€491.2m/$526.3m) in government funding after its annual grant was approved.
Football
Media

Pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus is to simulcast live coverage of the Polish Ekstraklasa on its free-to-watch YouTube channel to mark the league’s return from an extended winter break.
Motorsport
Media

Max Sport, the Bulgarian pay-TV broadcaster owned by telco A1, has extended its World Rally Championship rights for two more seasons. The new deal covers the 2023 and 2024 campaigns