Norway

Motorsport

Nordic media company Nent Group has acquired rights to US motor-racing series IndyCar. Nent Group will broadcast the series in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland until 2021
Football

The Strive OTT platform launched by the IMG agency will now be available on linear television in Norway via the IPTV platform Altibox
Tennis

The Nordic Entertainment Group media company has struck an exclusive rights deal with the Women’s Tennis Association.
Ice Hockey

TV2 Norway has agreed to almost treble the value of media rights to the country’s top-tier ice hockey league, the Get-ligaen.
Ice Hockey

TV2 Norway has struck a six-season deal to renew its rights to the top-tier domestic ice hockey league, the Get-ligaen. The deal, announced yesterday, will run from 2018-19 to 2023-24.
Handball

Swedish media company Modern Times Group and its subsidiary Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) have jointly agreed a five-year revolving credit facility with a group of six Nordic banks
Football

The IMG agency has said it will launch its first direct to consumer football OTT channel in Scandinavia. Entitled Strive, the new platform will be available in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Swedish telco Telia has agreed a deal worth NOK21bn (€2.21bn/$2.57bn) to acquire Danish telco TDC’s business in Norway, a move that puts pressure on market leader Telenor.
Baseball

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has acquired rights in the Nordic region for North America’s Major League Baseball.
Football

Viasat, the Norwegian pay-television operator run by Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), has staved off the threat of a blackout of Fifa World Cup matches by agreeing a new carriage deal with commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2.

Football

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has extended a rights deal for football’s English Premier League.

Multi-sport

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has said it will launch a new sports channel in August.

Ice Hockey

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has acquired rights in Norway to the 2018 Ice Hockey World Championship.

Basketball

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has secured coverage in the Nordic market for the first time under a deal with OTT video content platform OZ.

Football

Norwegian media company Amedia has agreed a five-year deal for rights to the Toppserien, the top division of domestic women’s football.

Football

Uefa has increased the value of Europa League media rights in Scandinavia by about 45 per cent in deals with TV2 in Norway and Discovery Communications in Denmark and Sweden.

Tennis

The ATP is earning less from market-by-market sales in the Nordics than from the last cycle’s pan-regional deal, after Modern Times Group added World Tour rights in Norway and Sweden to its earlier Denmark deal last month. A separate deal has also been agreed in Finland with MTV3.

Football

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a deal to stream live coverage of German football’s Bundesliga in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics, as well as Romania.