Finland

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has sealed its third major rights deal this week by extending its agreement with the Premier League, the top division of English club football.

The Discovery Networks Finland division of US media company Discovery has struck a sublicensing agreement with Finnish telco Telia for rights to SM-Liiga, the top division of domestic ice hockey.

Rights for the World Rallycross Championship motor-racing series have been awarded in France in Finland.

Pay-television broadcaster MTV Finland has agreed a one-season extension to its rights deal for MotoGP as the motorcycling championship prepares to return to the country next year.

Finnish telco DNA has struck a deal to extend carriage of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport’s channels.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired exclusive Nordic media rights to the Uefa Futsal Euro 2018 national team tournament.

Finnish telco DNA has become the latest operator to enter a carriage dispute with media company Discovery Communications and its pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Ski Sport Finland has signed a long-term extension to its international media rights partnership with the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Finnish telecommunications company Elisa has extended its rights deal for Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain.

The ATP is earning less from market-by-market sales in the Nordics than from the last cycle’s pan-regional deal, after Modern Times Group added World Tour rights in Norway and Sweden to its earlier Denmark deal last month. A separate deal has also been agreed in Finland with MTV3.

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a deal to stream live coverage of German football’s Bundesliga in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics, as well as Romania.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has renewed a rights deal in the Nordic region for the Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey club competition.

Uefa has earned increases of at least 50 per cent in Finland and the Netherlands from recent sales of its national team rights.

Uefa last month recorded huge fee increases for its Champions League and Europa League media rights in Finland and Switzerland. 

The International Orienteering Federation has said its 2017 World Orienteering Championships will receive live coverage in host nation Estonia, as well as the sport’s key markets of Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, as the event continues to increase its broadcast reach.

Finnish public-service broadcaster YLE has acquired rights for events operated by Fiba, basketball’s global governing body.