Scandinavia

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 today (Friday) acquired media group Bonnier Broadcasting, with the SEK 9.2bn (€897.8m/$1.0

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

Clubs from the top two divisions of Danish football have agreed to major reform plans that will bind together all commercial rights on a long-term basis and alter the structure of the league system, while also seeking to extend deals with existing domestic broadcast rights partners.

Football

Advanced TV Network, a bankrupt online streaming provider, has been ordered by a Swedish court to pay nearly SEK210m (€20.5m/$24m) in damages after illegally distributing content in the country, including football’s English Premier League.

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.

Football

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has sealed its third major rights deal this week by extending its agreement with the Premier League, the top division of English club football.

Handball

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights to a number of national team handball tournaments operated by the International Handball Federation and European Handball Federation.

Swedish media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal in Sweden, Denmark and Norway for the Formula One motor-racing championship.

Multi-sport

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

Stockholm-based agency Spring Media has launched a new OTT channel to provide coverage of Swedish speedway events on a global basis.

Ice Hockey

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

Multi-sport

Swedish media company Modern Times Group has today (Friday) said it will split into two entities following the collapse of a proposed takeover deal.

Athletics

Danish commercial broadcaster TV2 has agreed a six-year rights deal for events operated by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Multi-sport

Danish telco TDC has today (Monday) said it intends to exit a proposed deal to take over multi-territory commercial and pay-television company Modern Times Group’s broadcasting and entertainment division after being approached with a takeover offer for its own business.