Denmark

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

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

News in Brief

Ratings fall but battling Tour sees signs of hope

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

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The international badminton federation said this week that it has brought in higher television-rights fees and better worldwide exposure for its top events this year.

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

American Football’s Superbowl was broadcast live by four terrestrial channels in Europe.

Football’s Euro 2004 championship was a big hit with television audiences across Europe.