Nordics
High-flying Unity attracts Liberty’s attention
German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Aussie Rules football, rugby league and tennis
Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Spanish World Cup deal and others
Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro and Serie A football, rugby union
Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…
Skiing audiences tune in but miss gold performances
Weekday lunchtime television slots mean Swedish television audiences miss Anja Paerson's medal winning performances
TV SPORTS RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, horseracing, handball, tennis and more
American football: US network NBC acquired the so-called “network package” of American football’s National Football League rights, the main package of 23 matches per season, paying $600m (£316m/€465m) a year ov…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Formula One and GP2 series deals
Football: UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting is set to acquire the rights to the English Football League’s Championship, lower divisions and the League Cup in a four-year deal worth at least £3…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice Hockey and others
Ice hockey: Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a
Ice hockey league hopes pay-TV will boost gates
Finland’s top domestic ice hockey league, the SM-liiga, is to put most of its matches on to pay-television
Complaints force Denmark to stop TV privatisation
The privatisation of Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has been called off because of the financial insecurity surrounding the channel
World handball is catch for viewers
Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
Second-tier sport will boost support for new channel
Prospects for a new Swedish sports channel, SportExpressen, could well hang on its coverage of second-tier domestic rights for ice hockey and football
League gives in over ownership to speed up TV sale
Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football, basketball, boxing, motorsport and more
Commonwealth Games: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.
Canal Plus and SBS will gain by bidding together
Takeover of the Nordic Canal Plus subscription channels by SBS Broadcasting
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics and football
Olympics: The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics
Canal Plus: We want all top rights
Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters
TV fails to make use of options for matching rights
Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.