Poland
Infront one step closer to monopoly
Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights
TVP invests in women’s tennis
Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has acquired rights for tournaments operated by the Women’s Tennis Association, the leading professional women’s tennis tour, according to the Tenis.net.pl
Multimedia Polska adds sports channels
Polish cable-television operator Multimedia Polska has agreed carriage deals for pay-television sports channels Eurosport 2 HD and FightBox
Medge targets Premier League for new platform; NC Plus closes in on speedway league
Medge looks for premier League bridge into Polish TV market; NC Plus closes in on speedway
Events business ‘troublesome’ and ‘too small’ for C+
Dutaret says events business can grow despite the crisis
Polsat snaps up Poland national team rights
Polish pay-television operator Polsat acquired domestic rights for Poland national team football matches in a deal with the Sportfive agency
Polish regulator approves merger of leading pay-TV operators
Poland’s competition regulator, UOKIK, has approved a merger between pay-television operators Cyfra Plus and N.
Drop in second-party rights prices as Uefa arrives at central solution
Dip in second-party World Cup qualifier values in key markets
No free-to-air coverage in Poland for World Cup qualifier
A game involving the Poland national football team is set to be unavailable on free-to-air television in the country for the first time in 11 years after public-service broadcaster TVP was unable to agree…
Italian volleyball fits MP & Silva’s growth strategy
Italian volleyball goes global
Onet teams up with Eurosport for new Polish sports website
Polish internet company Onet has linked up with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport to launch a new sports website.
The Eurosport.onet.pl website will go live on August 27, replacing the Sport.onet
Canal Plus Cyfrowy snaps up Ligue 1 rights
Polish pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Cyfrowy has acquired rights for Ligue 1, the top division of French football, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Orange Sport and TVN to share Polish Cup rights
Orange Sport, the pay-television broadcaster operated by Polish telecommunications company Telekomunkacja Polska, will share rights to Polish Cup football with the TVN Group media company for the next…
Polish pay-TV operator bags Olympics rights
Polish pay-television platform ‘n’ will broadcast more than 100 hours of live and delayed action from this summer’s Olympic Games in London, after agreeing a sublicensing agreement with public-service broad…
AIBA’s World Series of Boxing lands Polish rights deal
Polish pay-television broadcaster N Sports acquired rights to the World Series of Boxing, an annual boxing competition organised by the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA)
IMG looks east in FIVB expansion plans
IMG sees room for growth in China and South East Asia
FIVB hails ‘dream’ rights deal with IMG, ABC and Dentsu
FIVB targeting global growth with new long-term rights deal
NBA bounces back from lockout with a series of deals
Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning