Ice Hockey
TV Rights Deals 2: England rugby, swimming, hockey and more
Olympics: Turkish commercial network Fox Turkey acquired the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.
TV Rights Deals 2: Major League Baseball, Formula One, Skiiing and more
Baseball: US sports network ESPN extended a deal with Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media arm for inter-active television and other digital media rights through to 2013.
TV Rights Deals 2: World Series Athletics, Major League Baseball, Handball and more
Athletics: The Shanghai Media Group acquired the rights in China for the World Athletic Series in a four-year deal from 2010 to 2013
TV Rights Deals 1: Formula One, Serie A and more
Cricket: Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports acquired the rights for Twenty20’s cricket’s Champions League.
TV RIGHTS DEALS 2: Greece, Cycling, MotoGP and more
Basketball: Greek pay-operator NetMed acquired the rights for A1 league club PAOK in a three-year deal from 2008-09 to 2010-11
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Basketball, ice-hockey, motorsport and more.
Basketball: German commercial broadcaster DSF acquired the live, delayed and highlights rights for the 2009 and 2011 FIBA European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship from the Fédération Internationale de Basketball.
Ice-hockey looks for Max coverage
Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3 has taken advantage of declining free-to-air interest.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NHL, gymnastics, basketball, boxing, golf and more
Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m).
Ice-hockey wins TV6 best-ever ratings
Modern Times Group’s Swedish digital terrestrial channel TV6 attracted its highest-ever audiences last month
TV RIGHTS CLIPS: Football, MotoGP and more
Football: Portuguese public service broadcaster RTP agreed to sub-license 20 matches of football’s European Championship in Portugal next year to commercial channels SIC and TVI.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Rugby, ice sports and more
Rugby Union: French pay-television channel Sport Plus acquired the rights for European rugby union’s top club competition, the Heineken Cup, in a three-year deal with organisers European Rugby Cup, starting t…
Nordic Canal Plus regains football, renews ice hockey
Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
Infront must cut Bundesliga price, renew World Cup
Agency likely to renew deal for loss-making Bundesliga content
Premiere will struggle to reach 4 million target
Chief Executive Kofler's restructuring programme has turned company around
Survival thoughts but no TV for new ice hockey league
UK ice hockey "a mess"
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
RTP set to sell stake in pay-TV sports channel
Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Top TV Sports programmes in Europe
Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.