Romania

Basketball

Romanian pay platform Boom is fighting to keep sports rights after its parent company entered administration.
American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
Athletics

News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 5
Football

Skiing suffers cut as EBU fights off agencies [UPDATE: DEAL COMPLETED IN MAY 2010
Football

Mounting financial pressures have tempted cash-strapped Hungarian broadcaster MTV to sell on World Cup rights acquired through the EBU.

Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevisión acquired the domestic rights for Chilean national team matches from 2011 to 2014 in a four-year deal with Chile’s National Association of Professional Fo…
Football

Public-service broadcaster regains national team rights after previous incumbent Antena 1 opts not to bid.
Football

The major agencies are battling to add to their football federation portfolios in the countdown to the Euro 2012 qualifying draw next month.
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…
Cricket

UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB is set to agree a deal for cricket’s upcoming World Twenty20 Championship in England, ending a protracted 18-month long negotiation process with rights-holder ESPN Star Sports.
Football

RCS-RDS’s plans to launch a new sports channel raise serious questions about the stability of the record television rights deal signed by the country’s top-tier domestic football league last year.
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
Football

Romanian commercial broadcaster Antena is resisting pressure to sublicense two weekly matches to a rival channel.

Football

Football: Spanish pay-television operator Sogecable acquired the television rights for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in a deal with Fifa worth just over €90m (£71m). 

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games attracted the country’s largest-ever television audience.
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

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.