Nordics

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…
Basketball
Australia

Ice hockey:  Finnish ice-hockey’s domestic SM-liiga signed a three-year joint-deal with pay-television operator Canal Plus Nordic and free-to-air commercial broadcaster Nelonen worth about €3.7m (£2.5m) a
Ice Hockey
Europe

Finland’s top domestic ice hockey league, the SM-liiga, is to put most of its matches on to pay-television
Denmark

The privatisation of Danish public-service broadcaster TV2 has been called off because of the financial insecurity surrounding the channel
Handball
Denmark

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe
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
Football
Norway

Norway's top leagues have been forced to compromise on taking over ownership and sale of league rights
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
Football
Canada

Olympics:  The Bell Globemedia-Rogers Communications consortium won the Canadian rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics
Finland

Canal Plus major threat to the country’s free-to-air broadcasters
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.

Football
Europe

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.
Denmark

TV2 resurrects plan to launch premium pay-channel.