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Viasat’s deal covers Finland, Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Viasat will show a minimum 64 games a season on its Viasat Sport Baltic channels.

The KHL features 21 teams from Russia, along with three from Latvia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Telkom owns 66 per cent in the business, which it hoped would become a competitor to Naspers’ Multichoice, owner of the Supersport channels.

TSA is now working with technology enabler Mo. Ad Tech to provide a sports platform, PocketSports, to Indonesia’s two biggest mobile operators, Telkom Cell and Indosat.

The One Asia Super Series, set up by the national golf associations in China, Korea and Australia, will feature eight events this year, five of which are slated to be part of the Asian Tour schedule covered by ESS.

The other agency bidders are Sportfive, Infront Sports and Media and Ufa Sports. The European Broadcasting Union is also understood to have made a bid for a package of smaller European countries as it looks to bounce back from the loss of Olympic rights late last year.

The packages, covering the three-year period from 2010-11 to 2012-13, follow on from the league’s successful sales of its main highlights and live rights earlier this year.

The channel is designed to help TV4’s Canal Plus pay-channels compete more strongly in Denmark with rival pay-broadcaster, Modern Times Group-owned Viasat.

Nova, which earlier this month picked up the package of Champions League rights dropped by rival On Telecoms, added 3,160 subscribers in the quarter, bringing its total base to 362,739, an increase of 1.4 per cent over the year. It now has 305,220 digital subscribers and 41,188 analogue subscribers.

Sport1 is understood to have secured a 70-per-cent cut in renewing its deal for Champions League pay-television rights, a similar cut for Serie A rights, sublicensed from John De Mol and a cut-price deal on Bundesliga rights.

For more details see the upcoming issue of TV Sports Markets.

BRTC, owned, like the racing circuit, by the Bahrain government, stepped in after other broadcasters refused to meet an asking price of $16 million.

The deal was agreed just four days before the start of the first grand prix in Melbourne.