Norway

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

Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group doubled Formula One’s present television fees in the region

New sports channel to be launched in Norway next year by commercial broadcaster TV2 and telecoms company Telenor

Football: Spanish pay-television broadcaster Sogecable acquired the pay-rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from the 2006-07 to 2008-09 with the Team agency

Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway

Football:  Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)

The biggest-ever sports-rights deal in the history of Nordic television was agreed late this week

Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group has thrown down the gauntlet in Norway

Rights-holders and commercial broadcasters united in opposition

German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315