Nordics

Football

Suitors put off by fact agency may not see a return on many of its deals for a long time
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Cycling

Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.
Boxing

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Football

Polish commercial broadcaster Polsat is set to sublicense live Champions League rights to state broadcaster TVP

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.
Handball

The European Handball Federation said that television coverage of the rest of this season’s Champions League in the key handball market of Denmark would go ahead.
Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February
Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 acquired the free-to-air rights to football’s Champions League in a deal reported to be worth about €33m (£22.6m) a year.  It will have the first choice of live matches each Champions League week.

Modern Times Group’s surprise acquisition of the Danish TV rights for this year’s Formula 1 motor racing championship followed a whirlwind 48-hour tender process.

Football

Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.
Badminton

The international badminton federation said this week that it has brought in higher television-rights fees and better worldwide exposure for its top events this year.

Tennis

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Football

The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and football’s World Cup in Japan and Korea were the two major events that dominated European sports viewing in 2002.

American Football

American Football’s Superbowl was broadcast live by four terrestrial channels in Europe.