Handball

Athletics: The European Broadcasting Union acquired rights for European Athletics Association events in a four-year deal, from 2012 to 2015

Handball: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish men’s and women’s national teams and leagues in a four-year deal, from 2011-12 to 2014-15, with the rights-holders, the Dan…

Danish handball leagues and national teams hit by rights fee and free-to-air coverage cuts.

Handball: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the rights for the International Handball Federation men’s and women’s World Championships in 2011 and 2013 in a deal with the Ufa Spo…

Germany fails to deliver a big fee but a break-even is thought possible on Ufa's World Championships investment.

Athletics: Channel 4, the UK commercial broadcaster, acquired the rights for the 2011 and 2013 World Championships in a three-year deal with the IEC in Sports agency

American Football: UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 acquired the live rights to all of the NFL’s Sunday night games for the 2010 season.

Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…

Basketball: US cable sports channel Versus acquired rights for 16 games of the 2009-10 season of the NBA Develop-ment League, the official minor league basketball competition, in a deal with the NBA.

Baseball: Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport acquired the rights for next month’s 2009 Baseball World Cup in a deal with the International Baseball Federation.

Four-way competition helped the IHF achieve about a 70 per cent increase in worldwide television rights revenues in a new deal with the Ufa Sports agency.

Germany's Handball Bundesliga secured a good increase in rights fees this week after agreeing an all-inclusive deal with free-to-air sports broadcaster DSF.

Athletics: US free-to-air broadcaster NBC extended its deal with the New York City Road Runners for the television rights for the New York City marathon for three years from 2009 to 2011

Asian Games: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights for the 2010 Asian Games in Guangdong, China, in a deal with the Games’ organisers. CCTV will undertake the host broadcasting of the event.

ARD and ZDF went unchallenged in extending their deal for handball’s European Championships this month, with commercial rival RTL deciding to concentrate instead on bidding for the World Championships in 2011.

Basketball: Eurosport Deutschland acquired live rights for nine selected playoff matches from Germany’s top league, the Basketball Bundesliga, in a deal with the league and rights-holder Sportdigital.tv.