Scandinavia

Football

Nordic Canal Plus is making defensive moves after losing its most important sports rights, for the English Premier League.

Football

Football: Maltese cable operator Melita acquired live pay-television rights for all 64 matches of the 2010 World Cup in a sub-licensing deal with public service broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services
Football

SBS TV takes a big step back into the sports rights market with Premier League acquisition

A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.

Football

Football: French commercial broadcaster TF1 sublicensed rights for the 2010 World Cup to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus in deals worth a combined €33m ($4…
Football

Commercial operator TV2 has snatched the market's biggest pay-television subs-driver from Canal Plus.

American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
Boxing

Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.

Athletics

Athletics World Championships rights sold in Sweden, Greece and Portugal
Football

Football: Free-to-air broadcaster Chilevisión acquired the domestic rights for Chilean national team matches from 2011 to 2014 in a four-year deal with Chile’s National Association of Professional Fo…
Football

Loss of Premier League rights prompts TV4 Group to swoop for Sweden’s domestic football league and national team rights.
Football

Agency aims to break with tradition in Nordics and sell Premier League rights market-by-market
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…
Football

Surprise win for local agency in Nordic rights auction for the Premier League.
Football

Increase in European media rights fees a sign of increasing value of Premier League even in Europe's developed markets.

Football

The battle between rival Scandinavian platforms Canal Digital and Viasat has driven apart the free-to-air consortium that was aiming to land the rights for Euro 2012 in a pan-regional deal.

MTV3 has extended its deal for Formula One until 2012, securing what has been the cornerstone of its mini-pay offering for a further three years.
Football

The Swedish football federation has received a good response to its recent television tender for national team and domestic league rights, but there are signs that it will face as tough a sell as last time.