Handball

Media rights clips from December 17 to January 20

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has struck a deal to show coverage of the latter stages of the 2016 men’s and women’s European Handball Championships.

Sportdeutschland.tv, the online sports channel of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), has acquired rights to the forthcoming 2016 European Men’s Handball Championship.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has switched coverage of the 2016 European Handball Championship to TV3, its main commercial channel in Norway.

The German Handball Association (DHB) has said it will hold a meeting with key powerbrokers of the sport next year in a bid to ensure its hosting of the 2017 Women’s World Championship receives coverage on free-to-air television in Germany.

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.

Media rights clips from August 27 to September 9

Media and entertainment company Discovery Networks has acquired rights for Norway's top handball league and the national handball team in the country.

The Handball-Bundesliga, the sport’s top division in Germany, has said its global broadcast reach will extend to beyond 40 countries in 2015-16 through new rights deals agreed by the MP & Silva agency.

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.

The Norwegian Handball Federation is planning to launch its own online channel after an agreement with Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 for internet coverage was curtailed.

Online sports broadcaster Laola1.tv, a subsidiary of the Sportsman Media Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with the Handball Liga Austria, the top division of the sport in the country.

Media rights clips from July 9 to 22

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.

Hungarian public-service broadcaster MTVA has launched a new free-to-air television channel entitled M4 Sport.