Eastern Europe

Football

Football: The Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL), representing the top two tiers of German football, Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2, agreed a number of media rights deals covering the four-year period from 2009-10…
American Football

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Football

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT, commercial broadcaster Mega and triple-play operator On Telecoms acquired packages of Champions League rights for the three-year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Despite the most exciting Formula One season in recent memory, with the driver’s and constructor’s championships going down to the wire, television audiences fell in a number of major European markets.

Football

Football: Bulgarian free-to-air broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for Bulgaria’s domestic top-tier A league in a five-year deal, from 2009-10 to 2013-14, worth a reported €30m (£23m). Fo
Basketball

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Football

Romanian commercial broadcaster Antena is resisting pressure to sublicense two weekly matches to a rival channel.

Football

Football: Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable acquired the television rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with Fifa worth just over €90m (£71m). 

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.
Basketball

Increased competition from Polsat for top sports rights could drive competition

News Corp in talks to buy 33-per-cent stake in Polsat
Basketball

Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Football

Poland’s top two football clubs are in dispute with smaller league clubs and the national football association over the proposed structure of a new Polish football league.

Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Football

Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February