Poland

Out of court settlement ends Telefónica-Euroleague dispute

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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:  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…

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…

BMW, Allianz, and Hewlett Packard pay for coverage on commercial broadcaster TV4

Football: Portuguese state broadcaster RTP completed the sublicensing of 19 of the 31 matches in this year’s football European Championship to rival commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI (TV Sports Markets 7…

Poland's TV4 purchases rights - BMW, Allianz and Castrol pay the fee

Zygmunt Solorz, owner of Polish broadcasting company Polsat Group, is understood to be in talks about selling a 33-per-cent stake in the company.

The Polish football association and the Polish league this week issued a tender for the league’s television rights

The Polish football association will offer free-to-air broadcasters a special package of live rights for six league matches a season

Infront, the agency selling the 2006 World Cup rights, is having a hard time getting close to its asking price for the rights in Poland and Hungary

Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.