Handball

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

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

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

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

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

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy

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.

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

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

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: 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…

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

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

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

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

Handball: Danish public-service broadcaster Danmarks Radio acquired the rights to both men’s and women’s Champions League competitions from the European Handball Federation in a five-year deal, from 2006-07 to 2010-11.

The Champions League deal signed by Danmarks Radio is the longest agreed for the competition

New five-year deal signed by Danish public-service broadcaster Danmarks Radio for handball’s Champions League