Eastern Europe

Football
Denmark

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

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
Denmark

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

Football
Africa

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

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
Austria

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

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

Basketball
Europe

European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague is facing a severe financial crisis that could threaten its future.

Biathlon
Austria

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Football
Austria

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

Football
Romania

Taste of victory soured by league title-sponsorship deal with rival broadcaster Realitatea.
Football
Africa

Football:  The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…
Football
Africa

The Octagon agency, favourites to win the English Premier League’s international rights in the Middle East, was thrown into gloom late last month when parent company Interpublic refused to guarantee i…
Football
Czech Republic

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.

Football
Albania

Football: German pay-televison broadcaster Premiere is set to sign a two-year deal, said to be worth €350m (£235m), with the Deutsche Fussball Liga for football’s Bundesliga.  Th
Football
Croatia

Rugby union:  Incumbent rights-holder IMG won the commercial rights for rugby union’s 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cups.  It beat opposition from Champions League agency Team Marketing.  I
Europe

BMW, Allianz, and Hewlett Packard pay for coverage on commercial broadcaster TV4
Basketball
Australia

Football: Portuguese state broadcaster RTP completed the sublicensing of 19 of the 31 matches in this year’s football European Championship to rival commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI (TV Sports Markets 7…