Sweden

Football

Surprise win for local agency in Nordic rights auction for the Premier League.
Football

The battle between rival Scandinavian platforms Canal Digital and Viasat has driven apart the free-to-air consortium that was aiming to land the rights for Euro 2012 in a pan-regional deal.
Football

The Swedish football federation has received a good response to its recent television tender for national team and domestic league rights, but there are signs that it will face as tough a sell as last time.
Basketball

Mediapro is close to finalising domestic mobile rights deals for Spanish football’s La Liga, the first such deals to be agreed after a three-year hiatus caused by the football war between Mediapro and Sogecable.
Football

Football: The English Premier League agreed deals across most of Asia for the next three-year period, from 2010-11 to 2012-13
American Football

American Football: Pay-television broadcaster Telenet acquired the rights in Flanders for the National Football League in a four-year deal with the IMG agency from 2009 to 2012
Ice Hockey

Renewed competition between Scandinavian media companies TV4 and Modern Times Group’s Viasat has led to major rights-fee increases for Swedish domestic ice-hockey.
American Football

American Football: The National Football League extended its television rights deals with US networks Fox and CBS for a further two years, up until the end of the 2012-13 season
Football

The decision by Team to delay Europa League sales in Scandinavia until after the completion of Swedish broadcaster TV4’s merger with the pan-regional Canal Plus premium channels appears to have paid off.
Football

Football: German sports channel DSF acquired the rights for the 2009 Fifa Confederations Cup in June. DSF will show 14 games live including the final and the third-place playoff match
Football

Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4, renewed its deal for La Liga rights in the Nordic countries and Iceland after making an aggressive pre-emptive bid.
Football

Football: England’s Premier League generated £1.782bn (€2.05bn/$2.62bn) in the sale of its domestic live rights for the three-year period from 2010-11 to 2012-13. The deal is a 4.5-pe
Football

Football: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC extended its deal for Premier League highlights for a further three years, from 2010-11 to 2012-13, paying £173m (€185m/ $237m).
Football

Football: Philippines commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN acquired the rights for the 2010 World Cup in a $1m (€750,000) deal with the Football Media Services agency.
Ice Hockey

The Finnish Competition Authority has been widely criticised for its decision to force pay-broadcaster Canal Plus to sublicense on domestic ice hockey rights in return for approving its merger with Swedish broadcast group TV4.

Athletics

Athletics: The Shanghai Media Group acquired the rights in China for the World Athletic Series in a four-year deal from 2010 to 2013
Football

Football: Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group acquired the rights in Denmark, Sweden and Norway for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Super Cup in a three-year deal from 2009-10 to 2011-12
Football

Top sports rights-holders Uefa and Formula One Management have achieved good rights-fee increases in Scandinavia.