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Top sports rights-holders Uefa and Formula One Management have achieved good rights-fee increases in Scandinavia.

News in Brief

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

Football: German commercial broadcaster RTL sublicensed a package of nine 2010 Fifa World Cup matches from pay-television operator Premiere, with an option to purchase a further nine matches.

Norwegian football has avoided a major cut in rights fees.

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

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Athletics Managements and Services have said that selling the television rights for the Golden League will be tough.

Microsoft bid as new era beckons Norwegian football

Football: The English Football Association agreed a deal with sports agency Sportfive for second-party rights for England’ home friendly internationals, giving Sportfive the rights for selling to broadcasters i…