Europe

Handball
Media

Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Germany to selected matches from the European Handball Federation’s forthcoming men’s Euro 2022 tournament.
Multiple Sports
Media

Slovak public broadcaster RTVS has expanded its sports offering with the addition of its new channel RTVS Sport, which will show hundreds of hours of top European football
Football
Media

Atalanta Media-owned women’s football streaming platform Ata Football has signed a two-year deal to cover Italy’s top-tier women’s Serie A in the US, Canada and Germany. T
Basketball
Media

SVT, Sweden’s public-service broadcaster, has secured rights to International Basketball Federation (Fiba) events and qualifiers until 2025.
Multi-sport
Media

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has reached an agreement to extend its sublicensing pact for Olympic Games rights with Discovery, it is claimed
Football
Media

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has said that some Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) proposals for the commercialisation of broadcast rights fo…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has named Benjamin Munk Lund as the new sport director in Denmark for TV3 Sport and Viaplay, its subscription streaming service
Biathlon
Media

Eurovision Sport, the sports arm of the European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters, has agreed a four-season extension to its rights deal with French digital-terrestrial television…
Multiple Sports
Media

The Polish parliament has passed a bill that could endanger Discovery’s presence in the country, with the media group condemning the bill and asking the Polish president to veto it.
Football
Media

Telefónica and DAZN’s five-season deals for LaLiga’s domestic pay-television rights will help the league broaden its distribution among Spanish consumers, though the league has suffered a real-terms decrease on the previous cycle’s pay-television income.
Motorsport

Formula One rights in Greece will remain with incumbent rights-holder ERT, which paid a flat fee to retain the property in a one-season deal covering the 2022 season.
Football
Media

Increased competition and the entrance of new players vying for Uefa national team rights have resulted in a decent increase over the next six seasons.
Football
Media

Pro TV has paid an increased fee for rights to the next two European Championships in 2024 and 2028, beating competition from rivals Antena and Look TV.
Football
Media

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group will pay an increased rights fee to the Swedish Elite Football Dam (EFD) for exclusive rights to the top tier of women’s football in Sweden, the Damallsvenskan, in 10 countries from 2022 to 2026.
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

Gazprom Media has agreed a long-term deal for exclusive television and digital media rights in Russia to mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship

As DAZN Group’s protracted effort to acquire BT Sport reaches its conclusion in one way or another, neither party wants to make final concessions to seal a deal before the year’s end.
Motorsport
Media

The Spring Media agency has secured exclusive global media rights to the Danish Speedway League for four years, from 2022 to 2025
Football
Finance & Law

Italian telecoms company TIM has partly blamed the performance of its Serie A football pact with subscription broadcaster DAZN as it issued its third profit warning this year