Nordics

Tennis

Media group Discovery’s willingness to acquire more ATP Tour content in the Nordic region than rival broadcasters had in the current cycle was key to its successful acquisition of the property.
Tennis

US media group Discovery has agreed a four-year deal for a host of ATP Tour events, strengthening its tennis portfolio in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Ice Hockey

Swedish media group Bonnier has significantly increased its investment in Sweden’s second-tier ice hockey league, the HockeyAllsvenskan, to prevent a tender process that might have allowed a rival to swoop.
Football

Danish public-service broadcaster DR has acquired rights to a host of properties this summer, including the Fifa Women’s World Cup, the European Games multi-sport event and the Uefa U-21 European Championship.
Boxing

Media company Nent Group has acquired exclusive rights in the Nordic region to next month’s heavyweight boxing clash between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz.
Ice Hockey

Pay-television broadcaster C More has agreed a five-season extension with the HockeyAllsvenskan, Swedish ice hockey’s second-tier, for domestic rights to the league, running until 2025-26.
Football

The IMG agency has said its Strive Sport service will broadcast the 2019 edition of club football competition the International Champions Cup across Scandinavia
Football

Divisionsforeningen, the body that acts on behalf of both Denmark's football clubs and the country's football federation, the Dansk Boldspil-Union, issued a tender on Wednesday for the domestic rights…
Motorsport

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired rights in the Nordics to the 2019 edition of the W Series, the new women’s motorsport championship.
Football

Denmark’s RettighedsAlliancen, an organisation dedicated to protecting creative content, has partnered with LaLiga, the governing body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, to secure the f…
Golf

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has renewed rights for golf’s Open Championship in the Nordics until 2024.
Winter Sports

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has gained a foothold in winter sports in the Nordics with its shock acquisition of a host of properties from the Infront agency.
Ice Hockey

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired rights in Norway to the next five editions of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship
Skiing

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired rights to a host of winter sports properties in the Nordics from the Infront agency, landing a blow to public-service broadcasters in the region
Golf

GolfTV, the Discovery-owned online streaming service, has acquired rights in Norway, Poland and Russia to the Masters, the first men’s major of the year.
Multi-sport

Sports media agency Spring Media has recruited Petter Werner, formally of the EBU and Lagardère, to its sales and acquisitions team in Stockholm.
Football

A new player has emerged that could shake up the Danish sport-rights market before the upcoming domestic Danish Superliga tender after a subsidiary of the country’s largest telco, TDC Group, sublicensed English Premier League rights from Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group.
Football

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has sublicensed English Premier League rights to the broadcaster YouSee in Denmark from 2019-20 to 2021-22