Nordics

High-profile doping scandals hit television viewing for this year’s Tour de France.

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed

Ice Skating: The European Broadcasting Union acquired the rights for the World and European Championships and other events in a four-year deal with the International Skating Union, the sport's world governing…

NRK and pan-Scandinavian pay-television operator Modern Times Group are to extend their two-year-old sports rights-sharing agreement

Audience of 230 million in Europe

Canal Plus and Nelonen pay a Finnish record fee for domestic ice hockey

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase

MP & Silva, Sportfive and Rai Trade agencies estimated to have brought in about €100 million overall for 2007-08 season

Platform-specific packages aimed at pitting broadcasters against mobile and internet operators for new media rights

English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights

Football: Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub acquired the live rights for all matches in Germany’s Bundesliga 1 and Bundesliga 2 in a one-year sublicensing deal with German pay-broadcaster Premiere. 

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Matching rights option exercised to secure €6 million per year, three-year deal

Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports agreed sublicensing deals for the Twenty20 world championships, held in South Africa in September, with DirecTV (North America), Geo TV (Pakistan), Ten Sports…

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.