Denmark

Football

Canal Plus is to challenge the dominance of rival Viasat in the Danish market with the launch of a new basic-tier channel showing premium sports content.
Boxing

Fox Turkey, the News-owned general entertainment channel that last week won the rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics, hopes that the acquisition will help it fulfil its ambition of becoming Turkey’s most popular network.

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
Football

Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Football

Top sports rights-holders Uefa and Formula One Management have achieved good rights-fee increases in Scandinavia.

Basketball

News in Brief

Cycling

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope
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.

Football

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
Football

The national football federations of Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning to form a Scandinavian Super League
Football

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

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
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

Modern Times Group’s surprise acquisition of the Danish TV rights for this year’s Formula 1 motor racing championship followed a whirlwind 48-hour tender process.