SportBusiness Staff

With its international rights cycle almost complete, the English Premier League is set to pull further away from the other top European leagues in terms of media-rights revenue.

Christian Seifert, chief executive of the German football league, told TV Sports Markets this week the latest domestic Bundesliga deals would entrench it as one of the world’s top three football leagues.

Uefa increased the value of the women’s European Championship tournament hugely in a deal with France Télévisions last month.

Interview with Christian Seifert, chief executive of the Deutsche Fußball Liga, about the new domestic deals for the German Bundesliga.

An increasing desire to acquire premium sports rights for its Eurosport channels was the main driver behind a host of Discovery Communications deals late last week, TV Sports Markets understands.

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport last month agreed to pay an increase of about 25 per cent to renew Women’s Tennis Association rights.

German commercial broadcaster RTL significantly increased the value of national team football rights in the country in a deal with Uefa last month.

The battle for domestic media rights to Germany’s Bundesliga will be over within a fortnight, with most experts surveyed by TV Sports Markets expecting the league to increase its revenues to more than €1bn ($1.1bn) per season.

Last issue, we wrote about how the EBU wrested UCI cycling rights from Infront in a joint deal with IMG. The deal – although not of enormous value – was a sign of EBU aggression after several years of losing key properties.