Nordics

Athletics
Media

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK has extended its rights agreement with the Norwegian Athletics Association (NFIF) for coverage of national athletics competitions
Tennis
Host Broadcast & Production

Sportway, the automated production and live streaming firm, has signed up the Swedish Tennis Association as its latest client in a two-year agreement
Multiple Sports
Media

Nordic pay-television broadcaster Allente, whose customers span Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, has secured a distribution deal with US media giant Discovery in which OTT platform discovery+ will…
Football
Media

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has acquired exclusive media rights to Italy’s top-tier women’s football league, the Serie A Femminile, as it furthers bolsters its women’s sport portfolio. M
Football
Media

Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, kicked off its 2021-22 season with 20 new international rights-holders in place as late contract extensions were agreed by the Infront agency in the…
Multi-sport

The record-breaking 400m hurdles victory by Norway’s Karsten Warholm attracted a peak audience of only 183,000 viewers in the Nordic country due to the seven-hour time difference with Tokyo.
Media

The Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent) plans to become Europe’s number one streaming service. If successful, its Viaplay OTT brand could soon be as ubiquitous as Sky or ESPN. But scaling in Europe on a market-by-market basis is an expensive and highly risky strategy.
Football
Media

TV2, the Danish government-owned broadcaster, has followed up its deal for rights to the Uefa European Qualifiers, Nations League and European Championship by acquiring rights to Denmark’s qualifying m…
Football
Data

European Leagues, the body of European football leagues, has gone to market early with the centralised fastpath data rights to league and cup competitions organised by a total of 18 different league bodies…

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Football
Media

Lega Serie A has accepted offers for rights to Italian football’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa from 2021-22 to 2023-24 in four European countries, along with Australia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Vietnam and s…
Football
Media

Denmark’s defeat to England in the semi-final of the Uefa European Championship attracted a record audience on DR, the Danish public broadcaster.
Football
Media

Action from the Uefa European Championship quarter-finals attracted strong audiences on public-service broadcasters in the competing nations of Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland
Ice Hockey
Governance

A total of five candidates are in the running to succeed René Fasel as the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Football
Media

TV4, the Swedish commercial broadcaster, attracted a second-half audience of 2.83 million viewers on Tuesday evening for the Uefa European Championship round-of-16 clash between Sweden and Ukraine
Badminton
Events

The Badminton World Federation has announced major changes to its 2021 calendar, including the cancellation of a swathe of Asian tournaments and moving the Sudirman Cup Finals and World Tour Finals out…
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster C More has secured media rights in Sweden and Finland to Italy's Serie A for the next three seasons
Football
Technology

Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV2 has offered to introduce a Video Assistant Referee system for domestic football competitions for when it takes over the broadcast rights in 2023