Denmark

Women's World Championships draw good audiences in Norway, Germany, Romania

The climax of the football season in Europe attracted big audiences for free-to-air broadcasters across the continent.

A consortium of Scandinavian commercial broadcasters is set to acquire the rights for the men’s and women’s 2007 and 2009 world handball championships.

Football: A consortium of Telecoms company Telenor and Scandinavia’s commercial broadcasters, TV2 in Denmark, TV2 in Norway and TV4 in Sweden, acquired the rights for the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal w…

Minor sports in Denmark have turned to the internet to increase their exposure and drive revenues rather than rely on traditional broadcasters.

The involvement of pay-television companies has helped the Sportfive agency earn rights-fee increases of about 60 per cent for Euro 2008.

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

A joint-bid from Canal Plus and Telenor comfortably won the Premier League rights in the Nordic region after much less competition than was expected.

The Nordic free-to-air television landscape is set for another shift in ownership power with the exit of Norwegian media group Schibsted.

Scandinavia’s three main commercial broadcasters have broken away from a wider free-to-air consortium to bid as a separate group for football’s Euro 2008 rights

Olympics: TVNZ, New Zealand’s public-service broadcaster, exercised an option to acquire the new-media rights for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a deal with the International Olympic Committee. 

Subsidiary DDtv acquires cash-strapped Danmarks Radio's content portfolio as part of Danish DTT strategy

Top-tier league rights divided into three packages - bidders can acquire a maximum of two

Football: Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 acquired the rights for the Danish national team home matches, paying DKr41.5m (£3.9m/ €5.6m

The opening two matchweeks of football’s Champions League have got good audiences for the competition’s new rights holders.

Poor viewing for the European athletics championships in Gothenburg will not help the European Athletics Association get the fee increase it is trying to get.

International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.

The board of the Scandinavian Royal League will meet next week to discuss the trend of falling television audiences that threaten the tournament’s future.