Eastern Europe
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: European, Latin American football, tennis
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
Ice-hockey, rugby and handball pull in the viewers
Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Olympics, cricket, tennis, motorsport and more
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…
TVN starts sports channel on back of Champions win
Polish media and entertainment company ITI will launch a sports channel to exploit its award of pay-television rights for the Champions League
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Athletics, rugby league, netball and more
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…
High-flying Unity attracts Liberty’s attention
German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro and Serie A football, rugby union
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…
F1, Champions League bring in big Euro audiences
Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.
Polish state TV faces hard job to get football-fee cut
TVP has approached Sportfive to try to re-negotiate its Polish national team deal
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice Hockey and others
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
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, ice-hockey, golf and Olympic sports
Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
World handball is catch for viewers
Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, golf and more
Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)
Canal Plus pays more for less of Polish football
Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus has won the live rights for the Polish football league
Czech TV loses rights after Prima surprise bid
Sportfive receives 80-per-cent rights fee increase for Euro 2008 rights in Czech Republic
Collapse of 2006 deal blamed on new TVP caution
Polish World Cup deal falls threw
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Cricket, Six Nations rugby, World Cup football, F1
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.
Surprise bidder makes up for no-show channel
Bidding for Polish football league’s television and internet rights has thrown up surprises