Eastern Europe

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

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…

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

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: 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Polish World Cup deal falls threw

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.

Bidding for Polish football league’s television and internet rights has thrown up surprises