Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey

Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3 has taken advantage of declining free-to-air interest.

Basketball

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

Modern Times Group’s Swedish digital terrestrial channel TV6 attracted its highest-ever audiences last month
Football

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.
Basketball

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…
Football

Pay and ppv Allsvenskan rights secured for two years
Football

Agency likely to renew deal for loss-making Bundesliga content
Boxing

Chief Executive Kofler's restructuring programme has turned company around
Ice Hockey

UK ice hockey "a mess"
Football

Formula 1, ice hockey’s World Championships dominated the May charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing.
Baseball

Sportinveste and PT Multimedia likely to buy
Cycling

Qualifying matches for football’s European Championship next year dominated the April charts in TV Sports Markets monthly survey.
Football

The collapse of Scandinavian sponsorship and rights agency Sponsor Service has put the future of a number of television-rights deals in doubt.

Athletics

Danmarks Radio accused of not fulfilling its role as a public-service broadcaster
Cricket

Rugby Union:  The BBC extended its deal for rugby union’s Six Nations Championship for a further four years, from 2006 to 2009.  The deal includes radio, television and internet rights.  T
American Football

Ice hockey: US broadcasters ABC and ESPN, which are seeking to renew a five-year deal with the National Hockey League, are said to have offered only about half the $120m (£66m/€94m) a year they now pa…
Football

A landmark investigation by the Swedish tax authority into whether television-rights income should be subject to tax could have major financial implications
American Football

Ice Hockey: The US National Hockey League signed a two-year deal with the NBC network, with an option to renew for a further two years