Norway

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.

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.

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.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights to the Europa League, the second-tier competition operated by European football’s governing body Uefa.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired rights in Sweden and Norway to the Association of Tennis Professionals’ World Tour Masters 1000 series of tournaments and the season-ending ATP Finals.

Viasat, the pay-television operator run by multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group, has opted to revamp its sports offering in Norway by introducing four new channels under the Viasport banner.

Norwegian pay-television distributor RiksTV has extended its carriage deal with Modern Times Group under a new agreement that will give greater prominence to the sports channels operated by the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has renewed a rights deal in the Nordic region for the Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey club competition.

The Norwegian handball federation returned to former broadcast partner TV2 last month, keeping its media-rights revenue steady in the process.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has signed a five-season deal to replace international media company Discovery Communications as the rights partner of the Norwegian Handball Federation.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has struck its latest major football rights deal by reaching agreements for a host of English club competitions in the Nordic markets of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has struck a sublicensing agreement for Uefa Champions League rights with Modern Times Group in a deal that ends the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster’s exclusive hold on the club football competition in the country.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has extended its rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

The Norwegian Football Federation, Norsk Toppfotball and Fotball Media have taken legal action against commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 in the belief it has infringed rights regulations for coverage of the Eliteserien, the top division of domestic football.

International media company Discovery Communications has agreed distribution deals with telco TDC in Denmark and Norway.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has agreed a two-season deal for rights to English club football competition the FA Cup.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired exclusive rights in the Nordic region to the 2020 European Handball Championships.

Pay-television broadcaster Eurosport Norway has struck a rights deal with the English Football League, which operates the three divisions below the top-tier Premier League.