Eastern Europe

Football
Hungary

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

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

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.
Europe

Zygmunt Solorz, owner of Polish broadcasting company Polsat Group, is understood to be in talks about selling a 33-per-cent stake in the company.
Football
Europe

The Polish football association and the Polish league this week issued a tender for the league’s television rights
Football
Czech Republic

Football: The Latin American broadcasting union, Organización de Telecomunicaciones Ibero-americanas, acquired the rights for the 2006 World Cup in 15 countries, excluding Brazil, from the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Basketball
Albania

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for up to 49 matches in football’s 2006 World Cup from Swiss agency Infront Sports & Media.

Boxing
Europe

April’s two Formula 1 races were the most featured events of the month in the TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European viewing.
Football
Europe

Telesport hopes that its acquisition of English Premier League football will be the key content it has been striving for since it first tried to launch four years ago.

Athletics
Europe

Football dominates European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets survey for March.
Football
Poland

The Polish football association will offer free-to-air broadcasters a special package of live rights for six league matches a season
Football
Hungary

Infront, the agency selling the 2006 World Cup rights, is having a hard time getting close to its asking price for the rights in Poland and Hungary
Cricket
Czech Republic

Cricket:  The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.

Football
Australia

Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.

Football
Hungary

UPC, the pan-European cable company, is to launch a second sports channel in Hungary
Football
Poland

Polish commercial broadcaster TVN was this week close to acquiring the highlights rights for the Polish football league
Austria

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets
Football
Canada

Olympics: The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial broadcasters Fuji TV, NTV, TV Asahi, TBS and Tokyo TV, acquired the media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics…