Norway

Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor has agreed a new deal with commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 for carriage of its channels on the Canal Digital pay-television platform.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights for Norway national team football matches over the next four years.

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK has agreed a deal to begin broadcasting coverage of the Ski Classics long-distance skiing championship.

Norwegian commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV2 is closing in on a rights deal for a host of national team properties of Uefa, European football’s governing body.

Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has sealed a rights deal for the World Rallycross Championship.

Norwegian pay-television distributor RiksTV has agreed a new long-term carriage deal with the Discovery Networks Norway division of international media company Discovery Communications that will include coverage of the Tippeligaen, the top division of domestic football.

South Korean electronics company Samsung will deliver Olympic content in virtual reality for the first time during the upcoming winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.

Norwegian clubs are at odds over the division of revenues from the new broadcast rights deal for the Tippeligaen, the top division of domestic football.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has switched coverage of the 2016 European Handball Championship to TV3, its main commercial channel in Norway.

Discovery Communications’ ambition to strengthen its market position in the Nordics helped Norway’s football league defy all expectations in the sale of its media rights last week.

FIDE, the global governing body of chess, has secured its first long-term media rights deal through a new partnership with Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK.

The Discovery Networks Norway division of international media company Discovery Communications has acquired domestic rights for the Tippeligaen, the top division of Norwegian football.

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK renewed two vital skiing rights deals last month, agreeing to pay decent increases for both.

Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, which operates the Eurosport Norge pay-television channel, would consider an alliance over Norwegian football league rights in the country with public-service broadcaster NRK, according to the Kampanje news website.

The Fotball Media agency, which distributes the rights for the Tippeligaen on behalf of the Norwegian Football Federation, has opened a tender process for the rights to the top division of the domestic game, along with the second-tier 1. Divisjon.

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK has extended rights deals with the country’s national ski association and Fis, skiing’s global governing body.