Europe

Multi-sport

French telecommunications company SFR-Numericable has launched a suite of sports channels following the completion of its acquisition of Altice Media Group France.

Football

TV2 has confirmed a rights deal for the European qualifiers package of national football team rights, while the Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster has also acquired rights for the Uefa Euro 2020 tournament alongside state broadcaster NRK.

Football

Uefa will stream exclusive live coverage in Spain of 28 matches from the Euro 2016 national team football tournament after CAA Eleven, the agency acting on behalf of football’s European governing body, failed to reach a rights deal for the package.

Football

TF1 is facing competition from fellow French commercial broadcaster M6 to retain its rights to a host of national team properties of Uefa, European football’s governing body, according to L’Équipe.

An increasing desire to acquire premium sports rights for its Eurosport channels was the main driver behind a host of Discovery Communications deals late last week, TV Sports Markets understands.

Tennis

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport last month agreed to pay an increase of about 25 per cent to renew Women’s Tennis Association rights.

Football

Modern Times Group has renewed its English Premier League rights in the Baltics, paying a decent increase compared with its current deal.

Basketball

Italy’s top basketball league, Lega Basket Serie A, has more than doubled the value of its international rights in a renewal with the MP & Silva agency.

Football

German commercial broadcaster RTL significantly increased the value of national team football rights in the country in a deal with Uefa last month.

Football

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence examines television audiences in selected European markets for the 2015-16 Uefa Europa League.

Football

The German Football League (DFL) has secured an 85-per-cent rise in the value of its domestic media rights after international sports broadcaster Eurosport and pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland were unveiled today (Thursday) as the big winners in the tender process for its domestic club competitions.

France’s competition authority, l'Autorité de la Concurrence, has blocked an exclusive carriage deal between Canal Plus and pay-television rival beIN Sports.

Football

Crisis-hit Bosnia and Herzegovinian Radio and Television has reached a last-minute agreement with the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters that will allow it to show the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Horse Racing

UK pay-television channel At The Races has extended and expanded its rights deal for US horseracing event the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Football

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has lodged a complaint against federal cartel office the Bundeskartellamt over the implementation of a ‘no single buyer rule’ for the domestic rights process to the Bundesliga, as the German Football League (DFL) prepares to unveil partners for its next set of rights.

Football

The Ukrainian Premier League, the top division of football in the country, appears poised to switch to a collective broadcast rights model following a vote of its member clubs.

Football

Barcelona and Real Madrid both received €140m ($158.34m) in revenue from broadcast rights deals for the Spanish Liga and Copa del Rey competitions for the 2015-16 season as LaLiga, the governing body for the football competitions, prepares to enter into a new three-season cycle.

Turkey’s state-owned Savings Deposit Insurance Fund has approved the sale of pay-television broadcaster Digiturk to beIN Media Group, according to the Anadolu news agency.