Sweden

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.

Athletics

Olympics: The Asian Broadcasting Union agreed deals in Indonesia for the 2008 Beijing Games with free-to-air broadcaster TVRI and pay-operator Astro.

TV4’s prospective €320 million acquisition of the pan-Nordic pay-television group C-More Entertainment will create a powerful, cross-platform buyer in the sports rights market.

Football

Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
Football

MTG secures Swedish home football internationals after ISPR Nordic extends bidding deadline
Football

Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
Football

German and Swedish viewing for women's football World Cup final
Football

How national football team matches are protected in different European territories
Football

The national football federations of Sweden, Norway and Denmark are planning to form a Scandinavian Super League
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Cycling

Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.
Boxing

Football and winter sports dominate European sports viewing in the TV Sports Markets’ survey for March.

Australian Rules Football

A rematch between boxers Oscar de la Hoya and Shane Mosley for the WBC and WBA super welterweight world titles is set to go ahead after US pay-television network HBO offered Mosley a greater share of pay-per-view…
Boxing

As the winter sports’ season comes to a close, a number of events dominated TV Sports Markets analysis of European viewing for February
Biathlon

With European football taking its mid-season break, the TV Sports Markets European survey for January shows top winter sports events dominating the tables.