Scandinavia

Football

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

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

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…
Athletics

Basketball: Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta acquired the rights to this year’s basketball World Championships in a deal with Fiba, the international basketball federation.

Football

The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway
Football

Fifa has agreed or is in the process of agreeing deals for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups in the top five European television countries
Football

Football:  Norwegian commercial channel TV2 an telecoms company Telenor acquired the rights to all Norwegian football in a record NKr1bn (£85m/€127m) deal (page 1)

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus won the rights for 15 of the 20 clubs in Italy’s Serie A football league last week
Football

Two agencies have put in pre-emptive bids for the rights for the top Swedish league and the national football team
Football

The biggest-ever sports-rights deal in the history of Nordic television was agreed late this week
Cycling

EBU membership threatened and other Scandinavian public service broadcasters angered by cost-cutting measures
Football

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group
Cricket

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.

Football

Football: Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Cuatro sublicensed the non-exclusive rights to at least seven matches from the upcoming World Cup from rival broadcaster La Sexta in a deal worth €20m (£14m).

Football

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Football

Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 has acquired a 51-per-cent stake in cable and satellite channel SportExpressen.f

Handball

Clubs from the Danish women’s handball league are threatening to break away from the domestic and European leagues in a row involving television-rights income.

Football

Danish regulators act to prevent anti-competitive movements in the television sports market