Sweden
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: World, European and domestic football
Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Euro 2008, Danish, Irish and French football
Football: Japanese pay-operator Wowow and commercial broadcaster TBS acquired the rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency on behalf of Uefa
Canal Plus in contract row over Swedish expansion
The expansion this season of Sweden’s top-flight football league, the Allsvenskan, from 14 to 16 clubs, has caused friction between the existing television-rights holders and the Kentaro agency
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Nascar, rugby, Commonwealth Games and more
Motorsport: US motor racing series Nascar finalised a series of eight-year deals worth an overall $4.5bn (£2.6bn/€3.8bn), a 40-per-cent increase on its present deals.
Three FAs may join forces to sell national matches
The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year
Swedish football having hard time getting top fees
Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Africa, World Cup, Serie A
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…
Canal Plus pays high fee for Serie A
Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: US sports, tennis, cricket, rugby and more
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…
Swedish channels demand to know Hauge rights fee
Swedish broadcasters want the Svenska Fotbollförbundet, the Swedish Football Federation, to state how much controversial agent Rune Hauge will be paid to advise
MTG doubles F1 fees despite lack of competition
Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group doubled Formula One’s present television fees in the region
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Ice Hockey, golf, cricket, basketball, sailing
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
Canal Plus lifts fee for ice hockey, now for football
The recent trend of Nordic broad-casters paying massively increased fees for sports rights continued
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: FOOTBALL DEALS
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
Regional league is a knock-out for SBS channels
Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element
Women attract year’s top football TV audiences
The women’s Euro 2005 football tournament last month attracted the biggest football television audiences of the year in Sweden and Norway
Canal Plus loses five Serie A clubs to ambitious TV4
Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus won the rights for 15 of the 20 clubs in Italy’s Serie A football league last week
Agencies strike fast, but FA may do the job itself
Two agencies have put in pre-emptive bids for the rights for the top Swedish league and the national football team