Europe

Football
Portugal

Uefa increased the value of its European Championship in Portugal by about 35 per cent last week after delaying the tender process proved successful thanks to the arrival of sports broadcaster Eleven in the country.
Football
Netherlands

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has agreed rights deals in the Netherlands for North America’s Major League Soccer and South American club tournaments the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana.
Football
Spain

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has become embroiled in a dispute with the Association of Women’s Football Clubs (ACFF) over the marketing of broadcast rights to Primera División de la Liga de Fú…
Switzerland

US media group Liberty Global has sold its cable network UPC Switzerland to Swiss telco Sunrise Communications for a total of CHF 6.3bn ($6.3bn/€5.5bn), which includes taking on CHF 3.6
Football
France

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media has backtracked on its claim to have acquired broadcast rights to the 2018-19 Coppa Italia club football knockout competition in France, Australia and New Zealand
Spain

Streaming platform DAZN launched its service in Spain on Wednesday, making it the company’s eighth confirmed market.
Austria

Austrian Bundesliga clubs have agreed a new distribution of their media-rights revenue after several clubs showed dissatisfaction with how the new record deal with Sky was split
Motorsport
Spain

LaLigaSports, the OTT platform of the Spanish football league, has agreed a deal to title sponsor this year’s Spanish Karting Championship and stream live coverage of the competition.
Football
Romania

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has held on to English Premier League rights in Romania, giving it leverage in upcoming carriage negotiations with local pay-television operators
Football
France

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has regained rights in France to the Coppa Italia club football knockout competition after a four-year hiatus
Football
United Kingdom

The Coupe de France club football competition will receive free-to-air exposure in the UK after digital television channel FreeSports acquired rights to the remainder of this season’s tournament.
Football
Spain

Spanish telco Vodafone has called for the country’s competition authority to reform content-sharing regulations, which force Telefónica to share 50 per cent of its premium content.
Esports
Poland

Pay-television broadcaster Polsat will air coverage of the Ekstraklasa Games, a new esports tournament organised by production company ESL in partnership with Poland’s top-tier football league and game d…
Football
Spain

Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) has agreed a partnership with LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, covering sponsorship and broadcast rights
Football
United Kingdom

Commercial broadcaster ITV has announced it will broadcast free-to-air coverage of Spain’s LaLiga for the rest of the 2018-19 season in a new deal with the league.
Motorcycling
Spain

Mediaset has acquired free-to-air rights in Spain for two MotoGP motorcycling championship races in 2019 in a sublicensing deal with OTT operator DAZN, according to reports
Bulgaria

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has confirmed that it has sold its 95-per-cent share in Bulgaria’s Nova Broadcasting Group to Advance Media Group.
Football
United Kingdom

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired non-exclusive rights in the UK and Ireland to football’s Spanish LaLiga.