Nordics

Basketball

Action Sports: Apparent Gravity Media, the US-based distributor of action sports and motorsports, agreed a number of deals for the Dew Action Sports Tour and the AMA Motocross Championship series
Ice Hockey

Medge/AMI break the ice with big MTG deal in the Nordics
Skiing

EBU members wary as ORF lowballing nearly backfires
Football

Football: The Comcast-NBCU network acquired rights to US football’s Major League Soccer in a three-season deal, from 2012 until the end of 2014, worth $10 (€7m) to $12m per season, with Soccer United Mar…
Football

Football: Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera acquired the
Athletics

Athletics: The International Association of Athletics Federations secured deals for the 2011 World Championships and other events in the Netherlands, Iceland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Albania, Croatia…
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed free-to-air rights deals in Portugal for Euro 2012 with public-service broadcaster RTP and commercial broadcasters SIC and TVI.
Football

Italy games heading for pay-TV
Football

Kentaro hits the German jackpot, Sportfive stoical on draw

Athletics

F1 teams seem happy to take Sky money as BBC slashes costs...Big C4 bid confirms the return to the market of a major player

Football

Danish league holds its value but Canal 9 loses key content
Boxing

Touchdown for ESPN but cloud over NHL...Traffic busy in Mexico...Lega channel may annoy Sky...Sucker punch on Primetime
Athletics

IAAF says IEC was right not to undersell its rights in Spain
Ice Hockey

Medge/AMI race the clock in Europe but NHL is relaxed
Football

Football: Korean media group SBS acquired the rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in a deal worth between $180m (€124m) and $200m (see story this issue).
Athletics

EBU’s Euro 2012 subsidiary in talks ... IAAF still needs to close big deals ... More increases for Uefa
Boxing

Golden Boy taking over
Football

NHL rights lost to Medge/AMI. Orange Sport deal fallen through. Shadows over ESPN