Ice Hockey

Media rights clips from March 13 to March 26

Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has agreed a three-year deal with the Danish Ice Hockey Union (DIU) for the rights to the Metal Ligaen, the top division of Danish ice hockey, and the Metal Cup competition.

Media rights clips from February 27 to March 12

Media rights clips from February 13 to February 26

Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT has agreed a three-year rights deal covering the 2014-15 to 2016-17 seasons of new European club ice hockey competition the Champions Hockey League.

UK-pay television broadcaster Premier Sports has renewed a multi-platform rights deal for the Ice Hockey World Championship national team tournament.

US media group Time has teamed up with several major sports leagues to announce the launch of a new live streaming service.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has renewed a media rights deal for ice hockey’s Canadian Hockey League.

Media rights clips from January 30 to February 12

Infront strikes first deals for new Champions Hockey League

US cable television channel One World Sports has acquired exclusive, multiplatform rights in North America to the Kontinental Hockey League, the top division of ice hockey in Russia.

The Rogers Communications telecommunications company has confirmed that it will show 500 regular-season NHL games across 13 different channels in Canada during the 2014-15 season as part of a new 12-year rights deal with the North American ice hockey league.

Commercial and pay-television broadcaster MTV has acquired rights in Finland for the new Champions Hockey League pan-European ice hockey club tournament.

Canadian NHL ice hockey franchise the Ottawa Senators has agreed a regional media rights deal with telecommunications company Bell Media.

Media rights clips from December 19 to January 15

TSN will be “aggressive” in bidding for sports rights after it was outbid by telecommunications company Rogers Communications for NHL ice hockey rights in Canada, according to Phil King, the president of CTV programming and sports at the pay-television sports broadcaster’s parent company, Bell Media.

Media rights clips from 5 to 18 December

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has announced that it will utilise its broadcast coverage of ice hockey’s 2014 World Junior Championship to debut the first live sports usage of the Twitter Amplify platform in Canada.