Norway

Football
Norway

Ownership row continues after the publication of an independent report by the country’s national competition authority.
Football
Norway

Norwegian football’s new commercial rights tender goes a step further than most in splitting up its rights for the market
Football
Austria

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to
Biathlon
Europe

The TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing in December shows Champions League second-phase matches topping the tables in six of 19 countries surveyed.
Denmark

Women's World Championships draw good audiences in Norway, Germany, Romania
Football
Canada

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency.  It is the first deal done for the championship.  Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is also set to sign a deal for Euro 2008, paying €120m.

Cricket
Asia

Cricket: The Nimbus Sport agency acquired the worldwide television rights to cricket in India in a four-year deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Football
Asia

Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).

Football
Denmark

The climax of the football season in Europe attracted big audiences for free-to-air broadcasters across the continent.

Handball
Denmark

A consortium of Scandinavian commercial broadcasters is set to acquire the rights for the men’s and women’s 2007 and 2009 world handball championships.

Cricket
Africa

Football: Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa acquired the rights to domestic knockout competition the KNVB Cup in a four-year deal with the Dutch football Association, KNVB.
Austria

The Turin Winter Olympics attracted impressive audiences to European public-service broadcasters.

Baseball
Asia

Football: Italian broadcaster Mediaset acquired the broadcast rights across any medium to top Serie A club Inter Milan in a two-year deal worth €200m (£137m), covering the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.

Football
Norway

TV2 and Telenor have abandoned plans to use the domestic football rights they acquired to launch a sports channel.

American Football
Africa

Football: A consortium of Telecoms company Telenor and Scandinavia’s commercial broadcasters, TV2 in Denmark, TV2 in Norway and TV4 in Sweden, acquired the rights for the Euro 2008 tournament in a deal w…
Football
Denmark

The involvement of pay-television companies has helped the Sportfive agency earn rights-fee increases of about 60 per cent for Euro 2008.

Football
Albania

Sportfive, Kentaro, IMG get plenty of ties against the big five teams; Infront do not fare so well

Football
Europe

The new domestic free-to-air deal for the Spanish Primera Liga has been a success for commercial broadcaster La Sexta.