Nordics

Football: French commercial broadcaster TF1 sublicensed rights for the 2010 World Cup to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus in deals worth a combined €33m ($4…

Commercial operator TV2 has snatched the market's biggest pay-television subs-driver from Canal Plus.

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013

Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.

Athletics World Championships rights sold in Sweden, Greece and Portugal

Football: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevisión acquired the domestic rights for Chilean national team matches from 2011 to 2014 in a four-year deal with Chile’s National Association of Professional Fo…

Loss of Premier League rights prompts TV4 Group to swoop for Sweden’s domestic football league and national team rights.

Agency aims to break with tradition in Nordics and sell Premier League rights market-by-market

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…

Surprise win for local agency in Nordic rights auction for the Premier League.

Increase in European media rights fees a sign of increasing value of Premier League even in Europe's developed markets.

The battle between rival Scandinavian platforms Canal Digital and Viasat has driven apart the free-to-air consortium that was aiming to land the rights for Euro 2012 in a pan-regional deal.

MTV3 has extended its deal for Formula One until 2012, securing what has been the cornerstone of its mini-pay offering for a further three years.

The Swedish football federation has received a good response to its recent television tender for national team and domestic league rights, but there are signs that it will face as tough a sell as last time.

Mediapro is close to finalising domestic mobile rights deals for Spanish football’s La Liga, the first such deals to be agreed after a three-year hiatus caused by the football war between Mediapro and Sogecable.

Football: The English Premier League agreed deals across most of Asia for the next three-year period, from 2010-11 to 2012-13

Next week’s bidding deadline for English Premier League rights in most of Asia will kick off a frenzied period of activity for the league, with tenders being issued shortly afterwards in Greater China, Africa, Australasia and Europe.

Recent growth in the pay-television market has helped Finland’s top-tier domestic football league gain its first significant rights-fee.