Scandinavia

Ben Speight, head of SportBusiness Intelligence, analyses how last month’s handball World Championship proved a big draw in Spain, Germany and Denmark T

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has acquired rights in Sweden for England’s home international football matches and the FA Cup, League Cup and Championship English club football c…

First European deals point to increase despite some drops

Bigger EBU Qualifiers bid may not be enough to win over CAA

Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has acquired rights for the Giro d’Italia cycling race. The deal will cover at least the next three editions of the Italian event, from 2013 to 2015.

Norwegian basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster TV2 has submitted a bid for International Biathlon Union (IBU) rights, according to the Aftenposten news website

The Diamond League is working but organisers are realistic about live coverage on major channels

TV4 offloads ice hockey in final round of cuts

IEC makes breakthrough in the UK and Nordics

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Sportsman and Red Bull think they have what it takes to make a success of rally championship

Broadcasters find they can live without the FA Cup in hard times

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK has acquired rights for the X Games winter sports series, according to the Kampanje news website. The deal will run for three years, from 2013 to 2015

Swedish commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV4 has sublicensed free-to-air rights for the Swedish SM-Liiga ice hockey tournament to pan-Nordic broadcaster SBS

Pan-Nordic television operator Modern Times Group has completed its buy-out of Danish pay-television sports broadcaster TV2 Sport after the deal was approved by the Konkurrencestyrelsen, the Danish competition…

Scandinavian precedent shows that the Premier League's limit on 3pm broadcasts will not necessarily affect rights prices