Europe

Multi-sport

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

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

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

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

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

British consumers can no longer access live sport via their pay-television subscriptions while abroad in European Union member states, as EU Portability Regulations no longer apply to UK providers after…
Multi-sport

Pierre Lelong, the long-serving sports acquisitions director at France-based pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, has died
Football

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote has acquired rights to the FA Cup, English football’s knockout clubs competition, for the remainder of the 2020-21 tournament and also the 2021-22 edition.
Football

Ireland is the latest country in which the sales processes have begun for broadcast rights to the Uefa club competitions from 2021-22 to 2023-24
Football

Digital media company OneFootball has appointed Denise Parkinson to the new role of global entertainment director
Football

Sunday afternoon's Dutch Eredivisie fixture between Ajax and PSV Eindhoven broke a viewership record on rebranded ESPN's first weekend of broadcasting the league, attracting an average of 1
Basketball

The National Basketball Association entertained the possibility of going exclusively direct-to-consumer in France as a way of counterbalancing a lack of competition in its latest renewal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports, SportBusiness Media understands.
Ice Hockey

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has picked up National Hockey League rights for the next four seasons, adding to last year’s acquisition of  rights to the Austrian domestic ice hockey league.
Multi-sport

Eleven Sports, the Aser Ventures-owned subscription broadcaster, has named Giovanni Zurleni as the new managing director for its Italian arm
Tennis

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote has renewed its rights to a raft of ATP competitions, marking its third major rights renewal in the last month
Multi-sport

Belarusian telecoms operator Beltelecom has added Basketball World and Match! Planet, two Russian sports channels, to its channel line-up on Zala, its terrestrial television and IPTV service
Multi-sport

The Infront agency has won a high-profile piece of new business after acquiring the European broadcast rights to the Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
Motorsport

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has renewed its Formula E rights for a further three seasons, through to 2022-23