Handball

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

Danish state-owned broadcasters Danmarks Radio and TV2 this week completed an extensive swap of handball rights

The International Handball Federation says that it will take in-house the television and marketing rights for the sport’s 2007 and 2009 World Championships

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

EBU membership threatened and other Scandinavian public service broadcasters angered by cost-cutting measures

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Clubs from the Danish women’s handball league are threatening to break away from the domestic and European leagues in a row involving television-rights income.

The German Handball League is set to win a big increase in its television rights fees if it accepts an offer by Premiere.

Robert Müller von Vultejus explains agency's branching into production and broadcast

American football:  US network NBC acquired the so-called “network package” of American football’s National Football League rights, the main package of 23 matches per season, paying $600m (£316m/€465m) a year ov…

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a

The European Broadcasting Union is planning to bid for the first time for the rights for handball’s World Championships

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe

The rights for French handball’s top properties have been put out for tender

Golf: US network NBC signed a six-year extension to its deal with the US Golf Association which gives it the live rights for the US Open, one of golf’s four Majors.

·   Football: African broadcasters acquired the rights for the African Cup of Nations in a series of last-minute deals with the LC2 agency.