Nordics

American Football

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…
Football

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…
Basketball

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

Finland’s top domestic ice hockey league, the SM-liiga, is to put most of its matches on to pay-television

The privatisation of Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has been called off because of the financial insecurity surrounding the channel
Handball

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe

Prospects for a new Swedish sports channel, SportExpressen, could well hang on its coverage of second-tier domestic rights for ice hockey and football
Football

Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights
Baseball

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.

Takeover of the Nordic Canal Plus subscription channels by SBS Broadcasting
Football

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics

Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters
Australian Rules Football

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Football

Canal Plus is considering a carriage deal with the direct-to-home satellite platform of its main rival, Viasat.

Football

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

Football

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.

TV2 resurrects plan to launch premium pay-channel.
Football

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 reportedly acquired the rights for football's Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.