Handball

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
Basketball

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.

Athletics

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

Basketball

Cable operator pays €25m for Canal Plus Nederlands pay channels, Canal Satelliet Digitaal
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Athletics

The Spanish Sports Broadcasting Council approved a final draft of listed sports events that are to be protected for free-to-air television
Baseball

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Handball

The European Handball Federation said that television coverage of the rest of this season’s Champions League in the key handball market of Denmark would go ahead.
Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February
Football

The collapse of Scandinavian sponsorship and rights agency Sponsor Service has put the future of a number of television-rights deals in doubt.

Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Football

Football: The English Football Association agreed a deal with sports agency Sportfive for second-party rights for England’ home friendly internationals, giving Sportfive the rights for selling to broadcasters i…
Handball

Collapse of Norwegian agency leaves EHF wary and determined to demand financial guarantees in future
Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Football

Chief Executive Darmon bullish about the ambitions of new private equity owners
Handball

The European Handball Federation will continue to sell the television rights for the sport’s Champions League competition in-house.