Nordics

Basketball

Basketball: German commercial broadcaster DSF acquired the live, delayed and highlights rights for the 2009 and 2011 FIBA European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship from the Fédération Internationale de Basketball.

Ice Hockey

Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3 has taken advantage of declining free-to-air interest.

TV4’s prospective €320 million acquisition of the pan-Nordic pay-television group C-More Entertainment will create a powerful, cross-platform buyer in the sports rights market.

Ice Hockey

Modern Times Group’s Swedish digital terrestrial channel TV6 attracted its highest-ever audiences last month
Football

Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
Football

MTG secures Swedish home football internationals after ISPR Nordic extends bidding deadline
Basketball

Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…
Football

Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years

Formula One television viewing rose in four out of the five top European television markets this year, according to a survey by TV Sports Markets.  Germany was the exception.
Football

German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final
Football

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories

The value of the Spanish league’s international rights for the three years starting this season has increased on the last, thanks to the big-player signings made by Real Madrid (Zidane, Figo and Beckham) a…
Football

The national football federations of Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning to form a Scandinavian Super League
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.