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Football

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has complained to the Medienbehörde KommAustria, the country’s media regulator, about public-service broadcaster ORF’s deal to acquire rights for the Uefa Champions League European club football tournament.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has extended a rights deal in Austria for the Uefa Champions League club football competition.

Football

Murdoch pays Champions League premium in US and Germany

Eurosport has been announced as a launch partner for the new Xbox One video game console in a deal that will offer customers in various European markets the opportunity to access the pan-European sports broadcaster’s coverage of sporting events.

Tennis

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has extended a rights deal for the ATP World Tour, the professional men’s tennis tour, for three years, from 2014 to 2016.

Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has invited bids for the media rights in Germany and Austria to the Uefa Champions League and Super Cup club football competitions.

In its haste to exit the UK, ESPN may have missed an opportunity with its ESPN America channel

Football

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has acquired the rights to the Samsung Cup, Austrian football’s domestic club knockout competition, in a three-year deal running from the 2013-14 to 2015-16 season.

Ice Hockey

The Austrian Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EHL) has agreed a three-year extension to its exclusive broadcast rights deal with the Sportsman Media Group.

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF is considering not renewing Formula One rights beyond 2014 due to cost-cutting measures.

Skiing

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences for the recent Alpine World Ski Championships in key European markets
Athletics

Latest Premier League deals

Biathlon

EBU chances of keeping hold of biathlon depend on ARD/ZDF as RTL eyes rights in Germany

Cable-television broadcaster Kabel Eins has retained live rights for the ADAC GT Masters motor-racing series in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The deal will run for two years, from 2013 to 2014

Sky Deutschland has agreed a deal with Perform that will allow the digital sports company’s ePlayer video-on-demand service to show selected content from the pay-television broadcaster’s sports channels in …
Football

The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has told Sky Austria that it is not allowed to charge rival broadcasters for using clips of the pay-television broadcaster’s coverage of football mat…
Skiing

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights

Football

Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF and pay-television operator Sky Deutschland have retained live domestic rights to the Austrian Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country