Germany

Football

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

Skiing

Weekday lunchtime television slots mean Swedish television audiences miss Anja Paerson's medal winning performances

“Wanted: Chief executive for major worldwide sports agency with very good businesses in France and Germany.  French and German nationals need not apply.”

European Commission wrong to try to establish price control in the sports rights market through the use of state aid law.
Football

The German government has staunchly defended the sports rights policies of public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF
American Football

American football:  The US National Football League signed two more television deals: an eight-year deal with Disney-owned sports cable network ESPN for Monday night games, worth $1.
Football

Football: Czech commercial broadcaster Prima TV acquired the rights for Euro 2008, paying €4m (£2.6m) in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency.
Handball

Men's World Handball Championships in Germany attracts big audiences across Europe

German pay-broadcaster Premiere is understood to be in talks to take over the free-to-air sports channel Deutsches Sport-Fernsehen (DSF)

attack on the way that public-service broadcasters in Germany acquire and use sports rights could be the first salvo in a wider ranging attempt to crack down on public-service broadcasters

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics
Football

Concerns that the commission will try to interfere too much in national market.

The European Commission last week accused German public-service broadcasters of a series of irregularities
Baseball

Commonwealth Games:  UK public-service broadcaster the BBC acquired the rights to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a deal with the Fastrack agency, which is selling the rights on behalf of the organisers.

RTL said this week that it needs to acquire major sports rights

Boxing

Asian Games:  Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan acquired the exclusive rights in India for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, paying $400,000 (£215,000/€313,000), an increase of $50,000 on what it paid for the previous Games.

Haim Saban is in advanced talks to sell his majority stake to the Axel Springer publishing group.
Basketball

Golf: US network NBC signed a six-year extension to its deal with the US Golf Association which gives it the live rights for the US Open, one of golf’s four Majors.