Nordics

Football

The IMG agency has sold its entire portfolio of football rights that it was exploiting on its OTT service Strive in Denmark to commercial broadcaster TV2
Skiing

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has extended its media rights in Denmark to the Ski Classics series of long-distance skiing events
Multi-sport

The Danish arm of Discovery Networks, the media group whose channel portfolio includes Kanal 5 and Eurosport, has dramatically reduced the cost of its sports streaming package in response to a distribution…
Esports

Norwegian free-to-air broadcaster TV2 has acquired the rights to broadcast the latter stages of a number of events in Norway’s national esports league.
Boxing

Media company Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has acquired exclusive rights in the Nordic region to the forthcoming heavyweight world boxing title fight between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr
Multi-sport

Media company Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has extended a distribution agreement with Norwegian telco Telenor
Multi-sport

Canal Digital, the Danish pay-TV platform, has added Sport Live, a channel that focuses on smaller sports properties in Denmark, to its package structure
Ice Hockey

Infront has sealed a big increase in value for International Ice Hockey Federation rights across the Nordics, in a deal with the Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group that will help cover the increased costs of its own recently-signed global rights agreement.
Tennis

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a two-year deal with the International Tennis Federation for rights to the Davis Cup finals in six of its markets
Multi-sport

Anne Tufte, head of sport in Norway at the Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group, is to leave the broadcaster as one of 45 announced job losses
Ice Hockey

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has announced a growth of 37,000 subscribers to its Viaplay service in the last quarter, and a 25-per-cent increase year-on-year. Nent now has 1
Formula 1

Formula One Management (FOM) has signed a one-race deal to show every session from the Mexico Grand Prix on online streaming platform Twitch
Multi-sport

Media company Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) has reached an agreement with Norwegian telco Telenor Group to combine the former’s Viasat Consumer satellite pay-television operations with the latter’s Can…
Esports

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has expanded its partnership with esports organisations DreamHack and ESL by acquiring the rights in Denmark to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament circuit…
Ice Hockey

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group continues to pick up exclusive winter sports rights in the Nordics, agreeing a new deal until 2028 with the Infront agency for International Ice Hockey Federation…
Futsal

US media group Discovery has expanded its coverage of the Swedish Futsalligan, the top-tier futsal championship in the country, in the 2019-20 season
Football

Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang has acquired the rights to all Austrian Bundesliga matches involving FC Red Bull Salzburg for the ongoing season

Danish quadruple play service provider YouSee has announced that it will remove all Discovery Networks-owned channels from its regular television packages at the end of the year