Handball
L’Équipe lands free-to-air rights to French national-team handball
Digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe has acquired free-to-air rights to a series of French women’s and men’s national-team handball matches.
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David Szlezak, managing director of EHF Marketing
David Szlezak, managing director of EHF Marketing, discusses how it has been working with Infront and DAZN on the distribution media rights from 2020-21, and the latest key deals that the former has signed.
Automated production in place as TV2 commits to Norwegian handball, ice hockey
Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 is to show widespread coverage of the country’s top handball and ice hockey leagues with matches produced using automated cameras.
LNH streams matches not aired by beIN ahead of ‘likely’ OTT launch
The Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH), the top men’s handball league in France, is to broadcast all matches not shown by rights-holding broadcaster beIN Sports this season ahead of the probable launch o…
Discovery seals European handball deals in France and Poland
International media group Discovery has finalised a deal for a host of European Handball Federation rights in France and Poland with the Infront agency
DAZN seals six-year EHF deal in German-speaking countries and Spain
International sports streaming service DAZN has acquired rights across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain to European Handball Federation club competitions for the next six seasons in a deal with…
Eurosport close to EHF Champions League rights deal in France
Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport is close to finalising an agreement in France for rights to handball’s EHF Champions League from the 2020-21 season.
‘Sport in France’ extends French women’s handball coverage into 2020-21
The ‘Sport in France’ free-to-air channel will continue to broadcast the country’s top-tier women’s handball league into the 2020-21 season.
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Incumbent Sky Deutschland rules itself out of EHF Champions League renewal
Pay-television operator Sky Deutschland has publicly withdrawn its interest in renewing its rights in Germany to handball’s EHF Champions League.
DOSB extends domestic second-tier Germany handball deal
DOSB New Media, which operates the online streaming service, Sportdeutschland.TV, has extended its deal for rights in Germany to the country’s second-tier 2. Handball-Bundesliga until 2022-23.
EHF kicks off Infront, DAZN pact with digital overhaul
The European Handball Federation has unveiled major changes to its digital media provision to tie in with the official start of its 10-year exclusive media and marketing rights deal with the Infront agency…
EHF feasibility study helps to forestall rights-holder claims
The European Handball Federation’s move to provide alternative dates for its competitions has not only afforded the necessary details to stakeholders for planning purposes, but also offers concrete information f…
Eurosport secures Nordics rights to Tokyo 2020 handball qualifiers
Discovery-owned international sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured exclusive rights in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway to the six handball qualifying tournaments for the 2020 summer Olympic Games
TF1 moves for Tokyo 2020 handball qualifiers rights
French free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1 has built on its handball coverage by acquiring rights to the Olympic qualifying tournament in which the national team will compete
EHF Champions League rescheduling hits rights round in France
The rescheduling of European Handball Federation Champions League matches to midweek is proving a sticking point in Infront’s efforts to negotiate a new rights round in France, SportBusiness Media understands.
Rights buyer DAZN: Transparency is key in EHF sales process
DAZN Group has reiterated its intention to ensure transparency in its joint 10-year European Handball Federation rights agreement with the Infront agency given the digital sports media company is also…
EHF Euro final attracts huge Croatian audience, Teledeporte audience under 500,000
Commercial broadcaster RTL attracted a peak audience of 1.6 million viewers in Croatia as the Balkan country’s national handball team lost out to Spain in the final of the men’s European Handball Championships.
Discovery to follow Norway’s bid to reach Tokyo 2020 handball competition
The Norwegian arm of US media group Discovery has acquired rights to the men’s and women’s qualifying tournaments for the handball competitions at the 2020 summer Olympic Games.