Eastern Europe

Football

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

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

Biathlon

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

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

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

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

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

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

Football

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

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

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

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…
Football

Favourable European time zone means increased fee
Athletics

Poland's TV4 purchases rights - BMW, Allianz and Castrol pay the fee
Athletics

Football rights to be used to transform cable entertainment channel into a sports channel
Football

Football Duo only managed to win match-by-match deals with tiny commercial broadcaster Magyar ATV
Boxing

Ukraine is to get its first dedicated television sports channel next spring
Football

Football: Sports agency Sportfive acquired the worldwide international television rights for the German Bundesliga in a two-year deal, from 2004-05 to 2005-06, paying over €15m (£10m) per season.