Scandinavia

Ice Hockey

MTV3 offers double current domestic ice-hockey rights fee
Athletics

Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.

Football

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year
Football

Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled
Football

Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV

Football

Football: African pay-television broadcaster Supersport acquired the rights for the South African Premier Soccer League, the country’s top-tier football league, in a five-year deal, 2007-08 to 2011-12, w…
Football

Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons
American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV and cable sports broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet acquired the Canadian rights to NFL football for the three years from 2008 to 2010, paying a combined…
Cricket

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

An alliance between Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK and one of Scandinavia’s largest pay-television operators, Modern Times Group, creates a third major rights-buying superpower
Football

Swedish broadcasters want the Svenska Fotbollförbundet, the Swedish Football Federation, to state how much controversial agent Rune Hauge will be paid to advise

Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group doubled Formula One’s present television fees in the region
Handball

Danish state-owned broadcasters Danmarks Radio and TV2 this week completed an extensive swap of handball rights
Cricket

Football: Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired Serie A highlights rights in a three-year deal

Denmark’s state-owned commercial broadcaster TV2 is thought likely to launch a dedicated sports channel next year

New sports channel to be launched in Norway next year by commercial broadcaster TV2 and telecoms company Telenor
Cricket

Ice hockey: Nordic pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live pay-television and pay-per-view rights for the Swedish Elitserien, the country’s top-tier league, from the Svenska Hockeyligan in a four-year deal, 2006-07 to 2009-10

Ice Hockey

The recent trend of Nordic broad-casters paying massively increased fees for sports rights continued