Hungary

Multi-sport

Hungarian media services provider Antenna Hungária has launched MindiGO Sport, its first standalone OTT streaming service.

Football

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA has bucked the Champions League’s recent trend of selling to pay-television broadcasters, paying a huge increase to retain its rights in the country.
Football

The CAA Eleven agency has launched tenders in six markets for rights to Uefa national team football properties.
Ice Hockey

The Infront Sports & Media agency has secured a series of rights deals for upcoming seasons of the Champions Hockey League pan-European ice hockey club competition.
Basketball

The national federations of 10 countries have signed up to the International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba) new multi-cast initiative, with the sport’s global governing body keen on securing further partners before the end of the year.

Motorsport

Hungarian broadcaster TV2 has made aggressive moves into the sports-rights market in recent weeks, acquiring English Premier League, National Hockey League and MotoGP rights.

Hungarian commercial broadcast group TV2 has acquired rights in the country to the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Olympics

US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has sealed its eighth sublicensing deal for Olympic Games rights in Europe through an agreement with Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA.

Eurosport Events, promoter of the World Touring Car Championship, has agreed broadcast rights deals in host markets for its forthcoming races in Hungary and Morocco, along with launching a new second screen service to enhance coverage of the motor racing series.

Handball

The Handball-Bundesliga, the sport’s top division in Germany, has said its global broadcast reach will extend to beyond 40 countries in 2015-16 through new rights deals agreed by the MP & Silva agency.

Basketball

AMC Networks International – Central Europe, the central European division of US entertainment company AMC Networks, has agreed a multi-year extension to its deal with the NBA for the rights in Hungary to the North American basketball league.

Handball

AMC Networks International-Central Europe, the central European division of US entertainment company AMC Networks, has acquired rights in Hungary to broadcast various events operated by the European Handball Federation.

Basketball

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA has launched a new free-to-air television channel entitled M4 Sport.

Kickboxing

Rights for the Glory Sports International kickboxing league have been awarded to pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, South Korean commercial broadcaster KBS, pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes and pay-television broadcaster Digi Sport in Hungary and Romania.

Football

AMC Networks International - Central Europe, the central European division of US entertainment company AMC Networks, has agreed a three-year extension to its rights to European club football competition the Uefa Champions League in Hungary.

Athletics

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTV has said it will launch a new sports channel next year.

Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has signed media rights agreements for the European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team competitions in the territories of Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Football

The CAA Eleven agency has launched invitations to tender for the media rights to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments in four eastern European territories.