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Modern Times Group’s Swedish digital terrestrial channel TV6 attracted its highest-ever audiences last month

Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.

MTG secures Swedish home football internationals after ISPR Nordic extends bidding deadline

Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…

Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years

Formula One television viewing rose in four out of the five top European television markets this year, according to a survey by TV Sports Markets.  Germany was the exception.

German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories

The value of the Spanish league’s international rights for the three years starting this season has increased on the last, thanks to the big-player signings made by Real Madrid (Zidane, Figo and Beckham) a…

The national football federations of Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning to form a Scandinavian Super League

Suitors put off by fact agency may not see a return on many of its deals for a long time

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.

Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.

German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

The changes introduced to Formula 1 this season to make the races more exciting are having a mixed effect on last year’s falling television audiences.

The European Handball Federation said that television coverage of the rest of this season’s Champions League in the key handball market of Denmark would go ahead.

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…