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Rugby Europe has struck a deal with the European Broadcasting Union that will see its rugby sevens events televised by public-service broadcasters in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Spain

Telecoms operator O2 has secured the lion’s share of domestic broadcast rights to the Extraliga, the top ice hockey league in the Czech Republic, while Spring Media has retained the international rights a…

Česká Televize, the Czech public-service broadcaster, has sold on rights to matches from the 2022 Fifa World Cup to commercial network TV Nova because of cost-cutting measures related to a drop in the l…

Uefa has secured increases for rights to its national team properties across Central and Eastern Europe, benefitting from strong competition across the continent.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has continued its rights drive in Europe by striking deals in the Baltics, Poland and the Czech Republic

Česká Televize will pay more to continue to sublicense Olympic rights from US media group Discovery but will gain more winter Games hours and an additional digital broadcast option.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has said it will provide a global live stream of all matches from the 2019 men’s Softball World Championship on video-sharing platform YouTube, while it has a…

The Pragosport agency last month extended its deal for global rights to the Czech First League – the Czech Republic’s top-tier football league – and immediately secured a domestic deal with pay-television broadcaster O2 for rights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Aggressive bidding from telcos has helped Uefa substantially grow the value of its club competition rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

Uefa has more than doubled the value of its club competitions in Czech Republic and Slovakia by striking an exclusive deal for the Champions League with pay-television broadcaster O2.

Czech public-service broadcaster Česká Televize acquired rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games from Discovery Communications this week, paying substantially more than the value of the 2014 and 2016 Games in the country.

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.

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.

The Pragosport agency is understood to have broken even on its deal for the Czech football league following two broadcast deals it agreed at the end of last month.

Pragosport deal is boost for Czech football league