Europe

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Belgium to a number of major darts and snooker events.

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa has extended its rights deal for Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain.

European football’s governing body Uefa has today (Tuesday) launched a tender process for broadcast rights to its Champions League and Europa League club competitions in Greece.

UK media services provider Arqiva has abandoned plans for a flotation on the London Stock Exchange.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has enhanced its partnership with World Snooker by agreeing a deal to televise the upcoming Shanghai Masters event.

Rights-holders are keenly following negotiations between French conglomerate Vivendi and Italian media group Mediaset, which could unblock the impasse over Vivendi’s takeover of the Mediaset Premium pay-television platform.

European football’s governing body Uefa is set to launch a tender process for broadcast rights to its Champions League and Europa League club competitions in the Czech Republic.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has said it will boost its live sports coverage by up to 1,000 hours per year as part of a wider strategy to transform its approach in the market.

Eleven Sports last month acquired the remaining package of German Bundesliga rights in Poland, ensuring its control over the league’s coverage in the country.

Uefa completed the sale of Champions League and Europa League rights in the Balkans this week, increasing its media-rights income from the region by more than 20 per cent.

Fifa has earned a surprisingly strong fee for 2018 Fifa World Cup rights in Greece from ERT after taking back the rights from the Taf Sports agency.

UK viewing data for the week between Monday 16th and Sunday 22nd October and September's leading free-to-air audiences. Please note that data is currently unavailable for BT Sport 1 and 2 and ESPN.

The IMG agency has agreed a deal with Uefa to exclusively sell and distribute the Indonesian rights to a host of upcoming national team tournaments organised by football’s European governing body.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, which operates the French football league, has opted to delay launching the sales process for the next cycle of domestic rights for Ligue 1, the country’s top division, until 2018.

Discovery Communications’ German free-to-air channel, TLC, will show live coverage of the 2018 winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, the media and entertainment company has said.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid has struck a strategic partnership with Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo.