Eastern Europe

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.
Football
Albania

The major agencies are battling to add to their football federation portfolios in the countdown to the Euro 2012 qualifying draw next month.
Football
Czech Republic

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…
Football
Albania

Increase in European media rights fees a sign of increasing value of Premier League even in Europe's developed markets.

Football
Africa

Football: Indonesian commercial broadcaster RCTI and sister channel Global TV sublicensed the rights for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa from PT Electronic City Entertainment, the original licensee
Football
Central America

Football: Lega Calcio, the body representing Italian football’s top clubs, agreed a number of deals for the domestic and international rights for the country’s top two divisions, Serie A and Serie B, …
Football
Europe

Polsat launched a premium football channel last week as part of wider plans to grow its digital platform.
Football
Africa

Football: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for Euro 2012 in 36 countries in a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body.
Football
Algeria

Football: Indonesian pay-broadcaster Telkomvision acquired a package of Serie A rights for the 2009-10 season in a one-year deal with the MP&Silva agency, renewing an existing deal
Football
Africa

Football: Italian satellite broadcaster Sky Italia acquired the live satellite rights for all Serie A matches from 2010-11 to 2011-12 in a deal with Lega Calcio. Sky will pay €580m ($824m) a season.
Australian Rules Football
Asia

Basketball: PCTV-owned Mexican pay-broadcaster TVC Deportes extended it deal for the live rights to the ACB Spanish Basketball League in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Athletics
Croatia

Athletics: US free-to-air broadcaster NBC extended its deal with the New York City Road Runners for the television rights for the New York City marathon for three years from 2009 to 2011
Football
Europe

Intense competition between rival pay-television operators has resulted in a tripling of rights fees for Uefa’s Champions League in Poland.
Football
Africa

Football: Spanish media group Prisa agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency for the exclusive pay-television rights of one La Liga match each week, to be shown on Prisa’s Canal Plus premium channel, and t…
Cricket
Europe

UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB is set to agree a deal for cricket’s upcoming World Twenty20 Championship in England, ending a protracted 18-month long negotiation process with rights-holder ESPN Star Sports.
Football
Africa

The Premier League is set to stagger its next international rights sales process in a move that will rule out what was always a remote possibility of someone making a worldwide bid for the rights.
Football
Europe

RCS-RDS’s plans to launch a new sports channel raise serious questions about the stability of the record television rights deal signed by the country’s top-tier domestic football league last year.