Eastern Europe

Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Viaplay Group, the international subscription streaming broadcaster, will not launch in German-speaking markets as planned next year amid wider cost-cutting initiatives
Basketball
Media

ALIA, the broadcast regulator in Luxembourg, has intervened in a case involving the alleged violation of Slovenian listed events legislation by pan-regional broadcasting group United Media during its broadcast…
Multiple Sports
Media

Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has announced that it has initiated an investigation into the technical glitches suffered by streaming platform Viaplay since it entered t…
Floorball
Host Broadcast & Production

Sportway Media Group, the automated production and live streaming firm, is to deploy its AI camera production infrastructure to produce Czech floorball matches on a new streaming platform for the sport
Handball
Host Broadcast & Production

The Polish Handball Superliga has initiated its domestic broadcast rights sales auction in a process involving Sportfive
Volleyball
Media

Telewizja Polska, the Polish public broadcaster, has agreed a new sublicensing agreement to continue to show top volleyball matches of the men’s and women’s national teams.
Basketball
Media

Romanian pay-TV broadcaster Sport Extra has reached an agreement with the Spanish Basketball Clubs Association (ACB) for rights to the Liga Endesa, Copa del Rey, and Supercopa Endesa for the 2022-23 and…
Football
Media

Telekom Srbija has retained and expanded its exclusive Uefa club competition broadcast rights in the Balkan region after the Team Marketing agency completed the sales process
Kickboxing
Media

Baltic media group TV3 has acquired rights in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to the Glory kickboxing series. The multi-year deal begins with the Collision 4 event in the Dutch city of Arnhem on Saturday
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has retained domestic broadcast rights to the Polish Ekstraklasa in a four-year contract worth an average of close to PLN325m (€67.3m/$66.1m) per season.
Football
Media

O2 TV customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia will not receive access to the new Canal+ Sport channel, which holds rights in the countries to the English Premier League
Football
Media

The Team Marketing agency has this week initiated the Uefa club competitions media rights sales processes from 2024-25 to 2026-27 in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria
Rugby League
Media

Subscription streaming broadcaster Viaplay has secured rights across various European markets to the forthcoming Rugby League World Cup
Multiple Sports

Rights-holders and agencies are racing against time to sell sports media rights in the Balkans as competition threatens to subside between the market’s two main media groups, Telekom Srbija and United Media.
Multiple Sports
Media

Subscription streaming platform Viaplay has offered to compensate customers in Poland and pledged to upgrade its infrastructure following fresh issues concerning its coverage of sports events
Multiple Sports
Media

Czech pay-television operator Telly has expanded its sports offering by agreeing a multi-year carriage deal with media group AMC Networks International (AMCNI)
Football
Media

Following recently concluded rights sales in France and the UK, the Team Marketing agency has issued invitations to submit offers (ISOs) for broadcast rights in the Balkan countries to Uefa club competitions…
Football
Media

Česká Televize, the Czech public-service broadcaster, has sold on rights to matches from the 2022 Fifa World Cup to commercial network TV Nova because of cost-cutting measures related to a drop in the l…