Nordics

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has extended a rights deal for football’s English Premier League.

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has acquired exclusive rights in the Nordic region to football’s German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Dutch Eredivisie, Belgian First Division A and Scottish Premiership, along with the Copa América national team tournament.

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.

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights to a number of national team handball tournaments operated by the International Handball Federation and European Handball Federation.

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal in Sweden, Denmark and Norway for the Formula One motor-racing championship.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has locked down Nordic rights to handball competitions operated by the sport’s world and European governing bodies as it detailed a rebrand to Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group).

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has said it will launch a new sports channel in August.

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.

Stockholm-based agency Spring Media has launched a new OTT channel to provide coverage of Swedish speedway events on a global basis.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has acquired rights in Norway to the 2018 Ice Hockey World Championship.

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has today (Friday) said it will split into two entities following the collapse of a proposed takeover deal.

Media group 365 has retained its grip on Uefa Champions League and Europa League media rights in Iceland, paying an increase of about 50 per cent.

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has agreed a six-year rights deal for events operated by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.

Danish telco TDC has today (Monday) said it intends to exit a proposed deal to take over multi-territory commercial and pay-television company Modern Times Group’s broadcasting and entertainment division after being approached with a takeover offer for its own business.

Danish telco TDC has agreed to take over multi-territory commercial and pay-television company Modern Times Group’s broadcasting and entertainment business in a deal worth SDK19.55bn (€2bn/$2.5bn).