Ice Hockey

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired rights for North America’s NHL ice hockey league.

Russian free-to-air broadcaster RTR has said that it is in talks with the NHL to acquire rights for the North American ice hockey league, according to the Sports.ru website.

Infront Sports & Media, the official media and marketing agency of the International Ice Hockey Federation, has revealed record viewing figures for the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship national team tournament.

The Big Ten Conference US college sports organisation has said at least 70 games from its inaugural season of men’s ice hockey will be afforded television coverage.

Ice hockey’s Atlantic Hockey Association will receive national exposure this season after the CBS Sports Network pay-television channel, which is operated by US network CBS, acquired rights to two games from the organisation.

Interview with Olaf Schroeder, chief editor and programme director of Sport1, on the broadcaster’s recent rights acquisitions and its position in the German market.

Pan-Nordic basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster SBS Discovery Media has said it has no intention of acquiring the Norwegian rights to ice hockey’s 2014 World Championship, according to the VG newspaper.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have signed a new 10-year rights agreement, from 2014 to 2023, with Hockey Canada, the governing body of ice hockey in the country.

Liberty Global-owned broadcaster Chello Central Europe has renewed rights for Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the next three years, from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

The International Ice Hockey Federation has issued an invitation-to-tender for the commercial rights to a new European club competition, which aims to launch in 2014.

The Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EHL) has agreed a three-year extension to its exclusive broadcast rights deal with the Sportsman Media Group.

A buy-out deal for ESPN America could be weeks away, with Setanta, Chello and Eurosport all in the frame

The Swedish league explains why it sold its rights without a tender; TV4 Group looks to sell C More.