Slovakia

World Touring Car Championship promoter Eurosport Events has agreed a broadcast partnership for the motor racing series in Slovakia with media group Central European Media Enterprises (CME).

The aggressiveness of telco Telekom Srbija was a driving factor in increases in the value of the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League in the Balkans.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts series has entered into a broadcast partnership with Czech commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova.

The Slovak Sport portfolio of channels will be reduced today with the Slovak Sport.TV 3 channel ceasing transmission today (Thursday).

European football’s governing body Uefa has reached an agreement with public-service broadcaster Česká Televize for the broadcasting rights to its 2015 European Under-21 Championship in host nation the Czech Republic.

Media rights income for Euroleague basketball is likely to be about the same in the 2014-15 season as it was last season, partly due to difficulties in Russia, one of the sport’s key markets.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport, Czech Republic public-service broadcaster Czech TV and Slovakian pay-television broadcaster Slovak Sport have acquired rights for the Euroleague Basketball club competition.

Pay-television broadcaster Digi will launch three new sports channels in Slovakia.

Sport1’s deal last week for the rights to the National Hockey League means the sports broadcaster now has exclusive rights to each of the four top North American sports leagues.

The IMG Media agency has signed a long-term multi-platform distribution agreement with European television provider M7 Group which will result in action sports and lifestyle channel Edgesport being afforded a platform on the continent.

Digital sports media service SlovakSport.TV has acquired exclusive rights in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for the inaugural season of the Champions Hockey League European club ice hockey tournament.

The Liberty Global media company's European satellite-television arm, UPC DTH, has agreed a deal for the Slovak Sport.TV2 pay-television channel deal to be carried on its freeSAT Plus service in Czech Republic.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has signed media rights agreements for the European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team competitions in the territories of Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The CAA Eleven agency has launched invitations to tender for the media rights to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments in four eastern European territories.

New Slovakia sports channel Slovak Sport TV3 will be launched next month on terrestrial television and online.

Liberty Global-owned broadcaster Chello Central Europe has renewed rights for Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the next three years, from 2013-14 to 2015-16.