Sweden

Australian Rules Football
Australia

Australian Rules: Australian pay-television operator Foxtel acquired pay-television rights for the Australian Football League in a sub-licensing deal worth A$315
Football
Europe

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.

Skiing
Austria

Weekday lunchtime television slots mean Swedish television audiences miss Anja Paerson's medal winning performances

American Football
France

American football:  US network NBC acquired the so-called “network package” of American football’s National Football League rights, the main package of 23 matches per season, paying $600m (£316m/€465m) a year ov…
Football
Japan

Football:  UK pay-operator British Sky Broadcasting is set to acquire the rights to the English Football League’s Championship, lower divisions and the League Cup in a four-year deal worth at least £3…
Scandinavia

Prospects for a new Swedish sports channel, SportExpressen, could well hang on its coverage of second-tier domestic rights for ice hockey and football
Baseball
France

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.
Denmark

Takeover of the Nordic Canal Plus subscription channels by SBS Broadcasting
Australian Rules Football
Australia

Television broadcasters are having difficulty making use of the matching-rights options they negotiated in earlier contracts.

Football
Europe

Canal Plus is considering a carriage deal with the direct-to-home satellite platform of its main rival, Viasat.

Football
Europe

Sports agency looks close to winning domestic television rights for all Swedish football.

Skiing
Austria

EBU set to get money back for Italian skiing rights.

Basketball
Denmark

Decision to hand back golf rights allows rival to recover monopoly on top Tour golf and launch golf channel.