Luxembourg

Multi-sport

Telecommunications company Telenet has agreed to acquire rival Altice’s businesses in Belgium and Luxembourg for €400m ($418m).
Football

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed rights deals in Austria and Switzerland, along with three other German-speaking markets, with pay-television broadcaster Sky, international sports broadcaster Eurosport and DAZN, the OTT sports subscription service operated by digital media specialist Perform.

Pay-television channel Motorvision TV has extended a rights deal with the Nascar North American stock car-racing series.
Football

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has teamed up with LFCTV, which is operated by English Premier League football club Liverpool, to distribute content from the in-house channel.

Hockey

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Singapore and Taiwan for the Euro Hockey League club tournament and the EuroHockey Championships national team competition.

Football

Belgian commercial broadcaster RTL has entered into a strategic partnership with international sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network, through which it will be granted rights to show live coverage of Serie A, the top division of club football in Italy.

Multi-sport

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has partnered with digital video technology company NeuLion to launch a new digital sports service in Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Singapore and Taiwan.

Football

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has agreed a rights deal with the Mediapro agency for coverage of domestic Brazilian football leagues.

Gymnastics

French basic-tier broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a rights deal with the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

Volleyball

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired platform-neutral rights to the European Volleyball Confederation’s 2015 women’s championship national team event.

Tennis

Nordic WTA talks

The Sportfive agency has invited offers for the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in Luxembourg. The deadline for the offers is 5pm central European time on May 21
Athletics

Asian Games: The IEC in Sports agency was appointed to handle worldwide media distribution of the 7th Asian Winter Games by the Games’s organising committee.
Football

The fate of UK pay broadcaster Setanta was hanging by a thread late this week, as TV Sports Markets went to press.
Athletics

Football: Fifa, world football’s governing body, rejected a minimum offer of $2.8bn (£1.6bn/€2.3bn)
Football

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