Eastern Europe

Football

Czech Television acquired the rights for the Gambrinus Liga, but it is threatening to pull out of the deal unless the football association tackles new corruption accusations.

Football

Football: Pay-operator Premiere acquired the Austrian pay-television rights for the top two domestic leagues, the Bundesliga and the Zac Erste division, in a three-year deal from 2007-08 to 2009-10
Football

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Baseball

Olympics: Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster TV Record acquired the Brazilian media rights across all platforms for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympics Games in London in a $60m (£31m/€45m) de…
Football

Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League

Athletics

Athletics: The Dentsu agency, acting on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations, brokered three-year deals with broadcasters in China, Korea and New Zealand covering the 2007 and…

German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global
Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Football

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

Football

TVP has approached Sportfive to try to re-negotiate its Polish national team deal
Basketball

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a
Football

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
Handball

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
Football

Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Football

Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus has won the live rights for the Polish football league
Football

Sportfive receives 80-per-cent rights fee increase for Euro 2008 rights in Czech Republic
Football

Polish World Cup deal falls threw
Cricket

Cricket:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan was awarded the domestic rights to the upcoming India v Pakistan series by the Madras High Court, which was ruling on the case brought by Indian broadcaster Zee Telefilms.