Europe

Football
Romania

Sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a new three-season deal, from 2019-20, with the IMG agency for English Premier League rights in Romania
Rugby Union
Europe

The national unions that make up the Six Nations rugby union championship are reportedly in advanced talks over a collective rights system that would effectively end plans for the launch of a World League
Football
France

French Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain has been left red-faced after its Uefa Champions League match against Manchester United was accidentally streamed live to a global audience on social media…
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
United Kingdom

Bellator MMA has been waiting years for a consistent broadcast deal in the UK and Ireland. Now two have arrived at once
Darts
Belgium

Sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has added another event organised by the Professional Darts Corporation to its portfolio in Belgium and Luxembourg, sealing a deal for the 2019 Unibet Premier League
Motorsport
Germany

Formula One Management, the commercial rights-holder of the F1 championship, has agreed a new deal with Sky Deutschland for pay-television rights a year after being unable to do so for the 2018 season
Football
Portugal

Pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports may have fallen on hard times in the UK and Ireland, but its opportunistic acquisition strategy has cleared a pathway to success in Portugal's broadcast market
Motorcycling
Italy

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has agreed a three-year deal for rights to the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) motorcycling series in Italy
Wrestling
Greece

Greek commercial broadcaster Skai has agreed a rights deal with US wrestling organisation WWE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it covers WWE’s flagship programs, Raw and SmackDown.
Football
Italy

Italy’s second-tier football division, Serie B, is in talks with three agencies over its international media rights and expects to close a deal in the coming weeks, but exposure rather than revenue will b…
Football
Spain

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has claimed another win in its ongoing battle against audiovisual piracy by securing the closure of three IPTV platforms in…
Czech Republic

Media group AMC Networks International – Central and Northern Europe has agreed a new multi-year distribution agreement with subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
United Kingdom

MMA promotion Bellator’s US-based events will be shown on Sky in the UK, adding to a deal for Europe-based events with Channel 5.
Equestrian
Germany

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have renewed rights agreements for the CHIO Aachen equestrian event
China

27 year-old Chinese football star Wu Lei's €2m ($203m) move to Espanyol in LaLiga went largely unnoticed in Europe as the January transfer window closed.  Wu Lei previously featured for Shanghai SIPG.
Winter Sports
Global

The Infront agency’s acquisition of the International Skating Union’s global media rights is the latest plank in the company’s strategy to dominate the winter sports rights market. T
Football
Europe

Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin has announced that European football’s governing body will launch its own OTT platform later this year.
Rugby Union
France

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has added international rights to its domestic coverage of the Top 14 after agreeing a new deal with the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, operator of the country’s t…