Scandinavia

Football

Danish public-service broadcaster DR has acquired rights to a host of properties this summer, including the Fifa Women’s World Cup, the European Games multi-sport event and the Uefa U-21 European Championship.
Ice Hockey

Pay-television broadcaster C More has agreed a five-season extension with the HockeyAllsvenskan, Swedish ice hockey’s second-tier, for domestic rights to the league, running until 2025-26.
Football

The IMG agency has said its Strive Sport service will broadcast the 2019 edition of club football competition the International Champions Cup across Scandinavia
Football

Divisionsforeningen, the body that acts on behalf of both Denmark's football clubs and the country's football federation, the Dansk Boldspil-Union, issued a tender on Wednesday for the domestic rights…
Football

Denmark’s RettighedsAlliancen, an organisation dedicated to protecting creative content, has partnered with LaLiga, the governing body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, to secure the f…
Winter Sports

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has gained a foothold in winter sports in the Nordics with its shock acquisition of a host of properties from the Infront agency.
Ice Hockey

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired rights in Norway to the next five editions of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship
Golf

GolfTV, the Discovery-owned online streaming service, has acquired rights in Norway, Poland and Russia to the Masters, the first men’s major of the year.
Multi-sport

Sports media agency Spring Media has recruited Petter Werner, formally of the EBU and Lagardère, to its sales and acquisitions team in Stockholm.
Football

A new player has emerged that could shake up the Danish sport-rights market before the upcoming domestic Danish Superliga tender after a subsidiary of the country’s largest telco, TDC Group, sublicensed English Premier League rights from Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group.
Football

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has sublicensed English Premier League rights to the broadcaster YouSee in Denmark from 2019-20 to 2021-22
Football

IMG-owned streaming platform Strive Sport has begun streaming Major League Soccer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Its coverage begins this weekend (March 2-3) with the start of the new MLS season
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
Football

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has signed an agreement with the IMG agency giving it access to matches from both Italy’s Serie A and Spain’s LaLiga.
Floorball

The Association Swedish Super League (FSSL), the entity representing the country’s elite floorball clubs, has entered into a partnership with the Spring Media agency to advise on commercial rights for a…
Tennis

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

C More has sold rights in Denmark for golf’s PGA Tour to Discovery Networks in a sublicensing deal, according to the Telecompaper news service.