Germany

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 

Sat.1 to show first-choice Wednesday matches, observers question incentive for fans to pay for more

Closure of Unity Media's Arena pay sports channel leaves Premiere the only obvious contender for Bundesliga rights

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008

The NBA’s renewal of its domestic television rights deals was the largest broadcast rights deal agreed in 2007

Rupert Murdoch’s surprise acquisition of a stake in German pay-television platform Premiere is bad news for media entrepreneur Leo Kirch

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

German mobile phone company T-Mobile is understood to be in talks with the Infront agency

Premiere has pulled out of a sublicensing deal with public-service broadcaster ARD for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics in a row over price and exclusivity

German pay-operator Premiere will launch a free-to-air channel only if it wins the main free-to-air highlights rights for the Bundesliga

the German football league is thought likely to win a big increase in rights fees for the live Bundesliga rights

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall

Formula One has signed long-term deals in four major markets – Italy, Brazil, Australia and Russia – securing rights-fee increases across the board.

The Fédération Internationale de Ski, the sport’s world governing body, will try to buy the television rights for each of the national associations

League appeals to competition authorities for permission to sell rights for five years

Deals made directly with broadcasters boost earnings