Poland

Polish commercial and pay-television broadcaster Polsat has signed a three-year deal for exclusive rights to mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports will stream live coverage of a German Bundesliga football match on social media platform Facebook this week.

Polish media group TVN has expanded and revamped its OTT platform with the launch of Player+, its new video-on-demand and live channel offering.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has joined forces with Orange Polska, the Polish arm of telecommunications company Orange, to roll out a 4K service in the country.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has expanded its offering in Poland with the launch of a new channel.

Eleven Sports last month acquired the remaining package of German Bundesliga rights in Poland, ensuring its control over the league’s coverage in the country.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has enhanced its coverage in Poland of football’s German Bundesliga and agreed a sublicensing deal with Polish pay-television operator NC Plus.

The NBA’s blockbuster deal with e-commerce firm Rakuten in Japan will soon be followed by new deals in Spain with Telefónica and Poland with NC Plus, TV Sports Markets understands.

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has enhanced its coverage of the Uefa Champions League under a new sublicensing deal for the club football competition struck with domestic rights-holder, pay-television operator NC Plus.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired Champions Hockey League rights in Poland while Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has also become a rights-holder for the European ice hockey competition.

Polish pay-television operator NC Plus has joined forces with media company Grupa Onet-RAS Polska to launch a new digital sports platform.

Polish pay-television operator NC Plus is set to launch a new channel designed to afford additional exposure for its sports rights portfolio.

The English Football League, which operates the three club divisions below the top-tier Premier League, has said its competitions will be broadcast into 166 countries for the forthcoming 2017-18 season as new rights partners were unveiled in a host of markets, including the US and Canada.

Eleven Sports Network has paid a marginal increase to renew Formula One rights in Poland in a deal with the MP & Silva agency.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Poland for the DFB-Pokal, the top domestic football knockout competition in Germany.

Polsat has completed its set of European club football rights in Poland, agreeing last month to pay an increase of about 40 per cent for rights to Uefa’s Europa League.

NC Plus has renewed its rights to the three most important speedway properties in Poland – the Speedway World Cup, Speedway Grand Prix and the Polish Ekstraliga – but will share the Ekstraliga with Eleven Sports Network from 2019.

Eleven Sports will continue to show live and exclusive F1 coverage in Poland for the 2018 and 2019 seasons after signing a new two-year deal.