Netherlands

Dutch commercial broadcaster Veronica has acquired exclusive rights for the Netherlands women’s national football team games.

Canadian cable and satellite-television broadcaster Super Channel has acquired rights to the World Boxing Super Series, while rights deals for the tournament have also been agreed in the Netherlands and the Balkans.

Uefa has earned increases of at least 50 per cent in Finland and the Netherlands from recent sales of its national team rights.

The Dutch competition authority, Autoriteit Consument & Markt, has approved the takeover of commercial broadcaster SBS by Talpa Holding.

Dutch competition authority the Autoriteit Consument en Markt has dropped a preliminary investigation into the dedicated Eredivisie football channel operated by pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Netherlands.

Dutch pay-television operator Ziggo has said it is considering its options after losing a court case concerning the carriage of channels operated by pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Netherlands.

Dutch pay-television broadcaster Ziggo has retained rights to national team qualifiers marketed by European football’s governing body Uefa, while it has also secured rights to the new Nations League competition.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has revealed details of a host of broadcast deals it has signed for the new Hammer Series cycling event, which commences tomorrow (Friday).

The Hammer Series, a new cycling event created by the Infront Sports & Media agency and the Velon collective body of pro cycling teams, will be live streamed for free via social media platform Facebook and video-sharing website YouTube when it launches next month.

The IMG agency has renewed its deal to market the international media rights to the Eredivisie, the top tier of club football in the Netherlands.

Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications is faced with another carriage dispute after pan-European pay-television operator M7 Group said it will stop providing Discovery channels through its platforms by the end of the month if talks over a new deal do not come to a satisfactory conclusion.

Talpa Holding has acquired a 67-per-cent stake in Dutch commercial broadcaster SBS from majority shareholder Sanoma Media.

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has extended its rights deal for the Tour of Flanders, one of the five ‘monument’ events of cycling.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has said it will close its office in the Netherlands in an effort to consolidate its winter sports operations.

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has agreed to pay an increase of just over eight per cent for rights to Euro 2020, compared to Euro 2016.

Dutch commercial broadcaster RTL paid close to a three-fold increase to strike a long-term deal for Professional Darts Corporation rights in the Netherlands.