Europe

Football
United Kingdom

English football’s fifth-tier, the National League, bucked the market trend to secure an increase in its media-rights fee in its latest domestic renewal with telco BT.
Football
France

The French Professional Football League’s (LFP) board of directors has agreed to re-tender its broadcast rights for the 2020-24 cycle next week but has limited the auction to those rights returned by M…
Tennis
Austria

Free-to-air commercial broadcaster ServusTV has acquired rights in Germany to tennis’ ATP Cup, a tournament that was aired last year by pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland.
Football
Ukraine

International OTT streaming platform Megogo has acquired exclusive rights to all Uefa club competitions in Ukraine, from 2021-22 to 2023-24
Cycling
Europe

The Infront agency has bolstered its road cycling portfolio in a long-term deal for international broadcast rights to both the Tour of Flanders and the Netherlands’ Amstel Gold Race.
Football
Italy

Fifa, world football’s governing body, has launched concurrent invitation-to-tender processes in Italy for both the men’s and women’s iterations of its World Cup tournaments. T
Rugby Union
United Kingdom

Six Nations Rugby, the organising body of the annual national team tournament, has slightly delayed to February the restart of its sales process for broadcast rights in the UK to the Six Nations and Autumn…
Multi-sport
Portugal

The Portuguese government is readying legislation which will see the centralisation of broadcast rights to its top-tier football league, the secretary of state for youth and sports João Paulo Rebelo has …
Motorsport
Europe

International broadcaster Eurosport will show the inaugural season of the electric touring car racing series, Pure ETCR
Handball
Poland

Broadcast rights to the 2021 IHF World Men’s Handball Championship, which begins today (Wednesday) in Egypt, have been distributed widely by the Sportfive agency in handball markets worldwide, with the e…
Ice Hockey
Germany

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed its rights to the National Hockey League ahead of the start of the 2020-21 season and will continue to share rights with OTT streaming service DAZN which has…
Multi-sport
Wales

The Welsh arm of UK production company Whisper has strengthened its presence in the country by acquiring broadcast production firm Lens 360
Esports
Germany

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has reached an agreement for subscription streaming service Amazon Prime Video to carry its eSports1 channel in Germany and Austria
Multi-sport
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian telecoms operator HT Eronet has extended its carriage agreement with Arena Sport, the pay-television broadcaster in the Balkan region
Football
France

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus will return its sublicensed Ligue 1 rights to France’s Professional Football League (LFP) on February 5 and has urged the league to re-tender the full suite o…
Football
Italy

Italian football’s Lega Serie A has attracted a healthy number of bidders for Serie A international rights as the deadline for offers passed yesterday (Monday).
Multi-sport
Italy

Italian television executive Antonio Marano has been named as the new commercial director of the Milan-Cortina Foundation 2026, the organising committee for the Italian Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
Motorsport
United Kingdom

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has become the latest broadcaster to acquire rights to Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series