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Football

The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish national football associations are considering selling their international television rights jointly from next year
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Talks over the sale of Swedish football’s television rights have stalled
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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…
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Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons
American Football

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…
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Swedish broadcasters want the Svenska Fotbollförbundet, the Swedish Football Federation, to state how much controversial agent Rune Hauge will be paid to advise

Pan-Scandinavian broadcaster Modern Times Group doubled Formula One’s present television fees in the region
Cricket

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

Ice Hockey

The recent trend of Nordic broad-casters paying massively increased fees for sports rights continued
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
Football

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