Sweden

Football
Africa

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…
Football
Denmark

Price forced up by competition from TV4, who buy the rights in Sweden for two seasons
American Football
Asia

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…
Football
Scandinavia

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

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

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
Scandinavia

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

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
Denmark

Scandinavian football’s Royal League is set to radically increase the knock-out element
Football
Norway

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

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus won the rights for 15 of the 20 clubs in Italy’s Serie A football league last week
Football
Scandinavia

Two agencies have put in pre-emptive bids for the rights for the top Swedish league and the national football team
Football
Asia

IMG, recenlty on the acquisition trail itself, could be a future target for French media group
Cricket
Asia

Tennis: Asian broadcaster Ten Sports sublicensed coverage of the finals of this year’s French Open tournament to rival pay-operator Zee Sports.

Football
Czech Republic

Football’s Champions League final was not the only major sporting event in May to attract good viewing for broadcasters around Europe.

Football
Europe

Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 has acquired a 51-per-cent stake in cable and satellite channel SportExpressen.f
Austria

German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global
Australian Rules Football
Australia

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315