Eastern Europe

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
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…