Scandinavia

Football
Scandinavia

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

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
Africa

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
Denmark

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

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
France

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

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
Scandinavia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Scandinavia

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

Football: Spanish pay-television broadcaster Sogecable acquired the pay-rights for the Champions League in a three-year deal from the 2006-07 to 2008-09 with the Team agency

Football
Denmark

Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element
American Football
Asia

Figure Skating: US network NBC acquired the rights for US figure skating in a three-year deal with the US Figure Skating Association, covering the national championships and the international Skate America…