Handball

The European Handball Federation will be seeking a large increase in the value of media rights to its competitions when it offers them to the market this September. The EHF announced it would centralise national team and club rights earlier this month.

Germany’s Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) has opted to take the marketing of its international broadcast rights in-house, with Scandinavia outlined as a key target market under the new approach.

The Norwegian handball federation returned to former broadcast partner TV2 last month, keeping its media-rights revenue steady in the process.

The European Handball Federation has said it will switch to a new method of marketing its rights for showpiece competitions the EHF Euro and Champions League, adding that a “huge package” of rights will be available through a tender set to launch in September.

The EHF Marketing division of the European Handball Federation has entered into a wide-ranging partnership with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has signed a five-season deal to replace international media company Discovery Communications as the rights partner of the Norwegian Handball Federation.

The European Handball Federation has signed up the MP & Silva agency to market the rights for the Beach Handball Euro 2017 competition.

Germany’s Handball-Bundesliga has eschewed offers from multiple agencies for its international media rights in order to sell market-by-market itself.

The European Handball Federation has launched a new magazine show on social media platform Snapchat for its Champions League club competition.

German bank Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) took the unusual step of acquiring International Handball Federation World Championship media rights this month.

German pay-television broadcaster Sky triggered a clause to renew EHF Champions League rights late last year, extending its deal until 2019-20.

The International Handball Federation has moved to defend its partnership with beIN Media Group, the global rights distribution partner for showpiece national team tournament the World Championship, amid criticism of the deal in German media outlets.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, along with commercial broadcaster RTL, have gained access to coverage of handball’s 2017 Men’s World Championship.

German handball fans will receive further coverage of the 2017 Men’s World Championship after media companies Axel Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 acquired highlights rights to the tournament, which commenced yesterday (Wednesday) in France.

The German Handball Federation (DHB) has made further moves to ensure coverage of the 2017 Men’s World Championship by acquiring public viewing rights to the upcoming national team tournament.

German banking group Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB), a major sponsor of handball in its home country, has acquired rights to the 2017 Men’s World Championship, averting a broadcast blackout in Germany of the national team tournament.