Scandinavia

Prospects for a new Swedish sports channel, SportExpressen, could well hang on its coverage of second-tier domestic rights for ice hockey and football

Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.

Takeover of the Nordic Canal Plus subscription channels by SBS Broadcasting

Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Canal Plus is considering a carriage deal with the direct-to-home satellite platform of its main rival, Viasat.

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.

TV2 resurrects plan to launch premium pay-channel.

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 reportedly acquired the rights for football's Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.

EBU set to get money back for Italian skiing rights.

But proposed extension deal for top-tier domestic football rights needs approval of football association and competition authority.

Decision to hand back golf rights allows rival to recover monopoly on top Tour golf and launch golf channel.

On the three days before Christmas, Modern Times buys four years of football, three years of golf and two new channels.

Television rights division snapped up by rival IMG