Eastern Europe

Cricket
Asia

Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…
Football
Bulgaria

Resurgent competition between pay-television operators Modern Times Group and Canal Plus is driving up fees in the Nordics.
Boxing
Africa

RCS-RDS wraps up Premier League ... Battling HiTV wins Serie A ... Japan to reclaim Tour's No.1 status ... Crozier's role in ITV rugby win ... Universum seeking ZDF successor.
Australian Rules Football
Europe

Poland's friendly against Cameroon on August 11 faces a broadcast blackout unless public-service broadcaster TVP can agree a last-minute deal with the Sportfive agency.
Europe

Polsat and cable operator RCS-RDS have agreed three-year deals for the 2011 to 2013 seasons.
Football
Europe

The telco is about to pick up the Champions League rights dropped last month by Boom, the insolvent pay-television broadcaster.
Football
Albania

Football: Nepalese media buying agency Media Hub Private Limited acquired the rights in Nepal for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with ESPN Star Sports
Football
Albania

BSkyB picks up England games; League solves Eastern problems; Romanian dilemma for Ecclestone; Sportschau ratings hold, share slips
Basketball
Europe

Romanian pay platform Boom is fighting to keep sports rights after its parent company entered administration.
American Football
Asia

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
Athletics
Asia

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5
American Football
Africa

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
Athletics
Albania

Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.

Boxing
Austria

Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.

Football
Europe

Skiing suffers cut as EBU fights off agencies [UPDATE: DEAL COMPLETED IN MAY 2010
Football
Europe

Mounting financial pressures have tempted cash-strapped Hungarian broadcaster MTV to sell on World Cup rights acquired through the EBU.

Football
Brazil

Football: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevisión acquired the domestic rights for Chilean national team matches from 2011 to 2014 in a four-year deal with Chile’s National Association of Professional Fo…
Football
Romania

Public-service broadcaster regains national team rights after previous incumbent Antena 1 opts not to bid.