Germany

The row between the DFL and its incumbent broadcaster DAZN has escalated after the latter vowed to take legal action over the Bundesliga domestic tender, prompting a fiery response from the league.

The domestic Bundesliga rights sales process has ground to a halt after DAZN, one of the bidders, accused the league of violating competition laws by not accepting its offer

The MotoGP motorcycling championship secured strong FTA deals in Austria and in Germany with ServusTV to ensure a slight increase on its previous media rights revenues in the DACH region.  

After a period of stability and reflection under new management, the streaming and media platform is setting the record straight on what it is now and, more importantly, what it will never be again

Luke Littler’s run to the 2024 PDC World Championship final has created a lasting boost for UK darts audiences, putting Matchroom in a strong position ahead of renewal talks.

The FIA World Endurance Championship has increased its exposure in the German market through a new deal with Sport1

The German Football League (DFL) has been given the green light to begin sending official domestic tender documents to interested media companies after the Bundeskartellamt, the cartel office, officially…

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed to an early extension of its global betting data and streaming rights distribution deal with Sportradar following talks with the industry's various aggregators

Turkish media group Acunmedya has bought a 50-per-cent stake in German sports broadcaster Sport1 for €30m ($32.5m) following an agreement struck with owner Highlight Communications.

Plans for private equity investment into the German Football League (DFL) have been abandoned for the second time in nine months, with seemingly no end in sight to the fan opposition that has disrupted…

Record UK viewing figures on Sky Sports for Super Bowl LVIII were among strong performing ratings across a variety of the National Football League’s target international markets.

CVC Capital Partners is the last remaining private equity firm in the running to become the strategic partner of the German Football League (DFL) in a new media company after Blackstone dropped its bid…

The German Football League (DFL) is coming under increasing pressure to hold another vote into its decision to take on private investment and potentially drop the plan altogether following another weekend…

Premier League broadcast rights have been retained in German-speaking countries by Sky Deutschland until the end of the 2027-28 season

It’s still two months until the Bundesliga plans to auction its domestic media rights, but the timing of the publication of the packages that will be on offer to the market provided for plenty of water-cooler talk at the annual SpoBis conference in Hamburg last week.

ARD and ZDF, the public-service broadcasters in Germany, have regained rights directly to the Uefa European Championship in 2028, it has emerged

One media company will be permitted to land exclusive domestic broadcast rights to the Bundesliga after the Bundeskartellamt, the German cartel office, agreed to scrap the ‘no single-buyer’ rule in its…

German streaming platform Dyn Media has added World Table Tennis (WTT) rights to its portfolio of chiefly domestic properties in a two-year agreement.