Norway

The Nordic free-to-air television landscape is set for another shift in ownership power with the exit of Norwegian media group Schibsted.

Scandinavia’s three main commercial broadcasters have broken away from a wider free-to-air consortium to bid as a separate group for football’s Euro 2008 rights

Subsidiary DDtv acquires cash-strapped Danmarks Radio's content portfolio as part of Danish DTT strategy

Boxing: German commercial broadcaster RTL acquired the rights for the next four fights of Ukrainian heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko in a deal with the Sportfive agency worth €10m (£6.8m).

The domestic ice hockey leagues in Sweden and Norway have signed new live television deals.

International rights sales for Spanish football’s La Liga are likely to bring in more than €100 million a year.

The board of the Scandinavian Royal League will meet next week to discuss the trend of falling television audiences that threaten the tournament’s future.

Nordic alliances, Royal League dead, bid for Israel's Sports Channel, Record Canadian Audiences for English Premier League

Global TV wants compensation for disrupted feed

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

EBU deal brings 10 per cent rights increase

Audiences fall in Germany and Switzerland, but rise elsewhere

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year

Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

An alliance between Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK and one of Scandinavia’s largest pay-television operators, Modern Times Group, creates a third major rights-buying superpower