Poland

Football

Uefa had a good start to its television rights sales for the Euro 2012 championship, achieving a 25-per-cent increase in fee from co-host country Poland.
Football

Football: Sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil acquired pay-television rights in Brazil for the 2010 World Cup in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster Globo
Basketball

Olympics: The Sportfive agency acquired the rights in 40 European countries for the 2014 Winter Games at Sochi and the 2016 Summer Games in a deal worth €250m ($315m) with the International Olympic Committee.
Football

Football: England’s Premier League generated £1.782bn (€2.05bn/$2.62bn) in the sale of its domestic live rights for the three-year period from 2010-11 to 2012-13. The deal is a 4.5-pe
American Football

American Football: US cable sports network ESPN acquired the rights for the college football Bowl Championship Series.

Despite the most exciting Formula One season in recent memory, with the driver’s and constructor’s championships going down to the wire, television audiences fell in a number of major European markets.

Basketball

Increased competition from Polsat for top sports rights could drive competition

News Corp in talks to buy 33-per-cent stake in Polsat
Basketball

Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute
Football

Poland’s top two football clubs are in dispute with smaller league clubs and the national football association over the proposed structure of a new Polish football league.

Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Football

Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February
Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

Basketball

European basketball’s breakaway Euroleague is facing a severe financial crisis that could threaten its future.

Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Football

Football:  The Japan Consortium, consisting of public-service broadcaster NHK and commercial networks Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi and TV Tokyo, acquired the rights to football’s 2006 World Cup, paying ¥1…
Football

The Octagon agency, favourites to win the English Premier League’s international rights in the Middle East, was thrown into gloom late last month when parent company Interpublic refused to guarantee i…