European Handball Federation (EHF)

Sports streaming service DAZN has acquired rights in Germany and Austria to men’s club handball competition the EHF Cup.

Interview with Kim Mikkelsen, SVP group head of sports at Nordic Entertainment Group, about the company’s host of media-rights deals in recent weeks, including English Premier League, Formula One, International Handball Federation and European Handball Federation agreements.

The European Handball Federation has increased the value of its global media and marketing rights by up to 300 per cent in a new deal with a joint venture comprised of the Infront agency and digital media company Perform.

The European Handball Federation is expected to secure a large increase in the value of its club competition and national team media and marketing rights, with bids due in six weeks.

The Sportradar agency launched its B2B OTT service this month – agreeing its first deal with the European Handball Federation – as it plans to roll it out to multiple rights-holders.

The European Handball Federation will be seeking a large increase in the value of media rights to its competitions when it offers them to the market this September. The EHF announced it would centralise national team and club rights earlier this month.

The European Handball Federation has launched a new magazine show on social media platform Snapchat for its Champions League club competition.

German pay-television broadcaster Sky triggered a clause to renew EHF Champions League rights late last year, extending its deal until 2019-20.

Germany’s football federation is set to earn about 35 per cent more from domestic media rights to its knockout cup competition, with deals to be announced in the coming weeks.

SportA, the agency that represents German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, has acquired exclusive rights to the 2016 and 2018 men’s EHF European Handball Championships, which will be held in Poland and Croatia respectively.

Italian DTT sports broadcaster Sportitalia has acquired exclusive rights for the European Handball Federation (EHF) Champions League club competition.

International pay-television operator Eleven Sports Network has agreed a four-year deal for exclusive live broadcasting rights to the European Handball Federation’s Champions League club competition in Belgium, Poland, Malaysia and Singapore.

AMC Networks International-Central Europe, the central European division of US entertainment company AMC Networks, has acquired rights in Hungary to broadcast various events operated by the European Handball Federation.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for a number of competitions operated by the European Handball Federation.

The European Handball Federation (EHF) will show coverage of the German Bundesliga on its streaming platform, ehfTV.com, after acquiring rights for the domestic league.

The European Handball Federation will stream live and on-demand coverage of its Women’s EHF Euro 2014 national team tournament.