Eastern 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…
Football

Romanian broadcaster Pro TV’s successful acquisition of Uefa Cup rights was also the third major defeat in a month for rival commercial channel Realitatea
Football

Football: UK commercial broadcaster ITV acquired the rights for the first-choice Champions League match on Wednesdays in a three-year deal with the Team Marketing agency
Football

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to