Nordics

The W sportsmedia agency has opened a new office in Oslo in an effort to expand its presence in the Norwegian winter sports market.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has struck a deal to offer its Viaplay online streaming service, which includes various sports content, to customers of Swedish telecommunications operator Tele2.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has acquired the exclusive live rights for the Wimbledon tennis championships in Denmark and retained a host of high-profile golf properties in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

Danish state-owned broadcasters DR and TV2 and Icelandic media company Skjarinn have acquired rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Bjørn Taalesen, the director of sports at Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2, has apologised for comments he made following the acquisition of rights for the 2015 and 2017 men’s and women’s Handball World Championships.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights for the 2015 and 2017 men’s and women’s Handball World Championships.

Pan-Nordic basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster SBS Discovery and pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport have jointly acquired rights in Sweden for the 2015 World Handball Championship for men and women.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has agreed a two-year deal for rights to North American basketball league the NBA.

The Infront Sports & Media agency’s deals last week for World Championship and World Cup skiing events with Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT are thought to represent a decent increase on the current value of the rights.

Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT has agreed a five-year extension to its rights deal for a range of International Ski Federation (FIS) events, under an agreement brokered by the Infront Sports & Media agency.

Danish broadcaster TV3 Sports, part of multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group, has teamed up with top-tier Superligaen football club FC København to develop its in-house online channel.

Uncertainty remains over the Danish broadcast rights deal for the 2015 Men’s Handball World Championship in Qatar, according to the Mediawatch.dk website.

European club ice hockey competition the Kontinental Hockey League has strengthened its global footprint with the Ufa Sports agency securing a host of new broadcast rights deals.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in the Nordic region for the 2014 ATP Stockholm Open men’s tennis tournament.

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 last week agreed a deal for National Basketball Association rights to bolster its sport content ahead of the launch of its dedicated sports channel.

Modern Times Group said this week that the emergence of Nordic drivers in Formula One was transforming the championship into a “magnificent” media rights property.