Hungary

Football Duo only managed to win match-by-match deals with tiny commercial broadcaster Magyar ATV

April’s two Formula 1 races were the most featured events of the month in the TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European viewing.

Football dominates European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets survey for March.

Infront, the agency selling the 2006 World Cup rights, is having a hard time getting close to its asking price for the rights in Poland and Hungary

UPC, the pan-European cable company, is to launch a second sports channel in Hungary

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets

Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the worldwide rights for International Cricket Council events from September 2007 through to 2015.

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Eight of the world’s Top 10 leagues for domestic audiovisual revenue are European and two Latin American, according to a new report comparing rights deals by TV Sports Markets.

Olympics: Korean free-to-air broadcaster SBS acquired the rights for four Olympic Games from 2010 to 2016.

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 

Commercial broadcaster RTL Klub snatched the Hungarian rights for the 2006 World Cup