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Ice-hockey wins TV6 best-ever ratings
Modern Times Group’s Swedish digital terrestrial channel TV6 attracted its highest-ever audiences last month
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, MotoGP and more
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.
Extra-time bid by Modern times stuns SBS channel
MTG secures Swedish home football internationals after ISPR Nordic extends bidding deadline
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Rugby, ice sports and more
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…
Nordic Canal Plus regains football, renews ice hockey
Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
F1’s TV season is saved by last five races for title
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.
Record viewing for women’s cup
German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final
England out of step over TV qualifying games
How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
SPORTEL TALK: Zidane, Beckham and Co lift foreign sales for La Liga
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…
Scandinavia plan for super league
The national football federations of Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning to form a Scandinavian Super League
SportA survives, but ISPR is still on danger list
Suitors put off by fact agency may not see a return on many of its deals for a long time
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, speedway, boxing and more
German agency Infront Sports agreed a one-year deal for Bundesliga rights with a group comrising EM
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.
Viewers aren’t wild about F1
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.
Handball’s right to talk under fire
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Boxing, football, golf and more
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…