Handball

Handball

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…
Handball

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

Handball

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…
Handball

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

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

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

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…
Athletics

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.

Australian Rules Football

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

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.
Handball

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

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
Athletics

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.
Handball

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.

Badminton

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.
Athletics

Athletics: French pay-television operator Canal Plus will broadcast the new six-meeting Ligue national d’athlétisme after nuclear energy company Aveva stepped in with a new sponsorship deal.
Baseball

Baseball: US sports network ESPN extended a deal with Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm for inter-active television and other digital media rights through to 2013.
Athletics

Athletics: The Shanghai Media Group acquired the rights in China for the World Athletic Series in a four-year deal from 2010 to 2013