Germany

Football
Industry Moves

Hendrik Weber has returned to the German Football League (DFL), organising body of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, to head up a restructured sports technology and innovation department
Multiple Sports
Media

Sports broadcast technology provider Deltatre has been selected by Dyn Media to build the new streaming platform for the Germany-based OTT operator
Football
Media

French free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1 attracted an average of 11.6 million viewers on Saturday as France defeated Denmark 2-1 at the Fifa World Cup in Qatar.
Volleyball
Media

Dyn Media, the German streaming platform founded by former German Football League chief executive Christian Seifert and publishing house Axel Springer, has struck a sublicensing agreement with commercial broadcaster Sport1 for the media rights to domestic women’s volleyball properties.
Multiple Sports
Media

German newspaper Bild has launched a new OTT streaming channel dedicated to sport. Bild Sport TV will initially launch through the Sportworld app provided by electronics manufacturer Samsung
Multiple Sports
Media

DAZN Group has announced distribution agreements with Hisense and Foxxum OS.  Hisense TV sets in Germany, Spain and Italy will now have the DAZN app pre-installed.
Football
Media

An average audience of 9.2 million people tuned into German broadcaster ARD’s coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup match between Germany and Japan amid new protests against Fifa’s ban on ‘OneLove’ armbands.
NFL
Events

The National Football League's inaugural regular-season game in Germany last weekend proved a huge success locally across a series of key metrics
NFL
Events

Germany event posts record for international games on league-owned network
Basketball
Host Broadcast & Production

Dyn Media, the German streaming platform to be launched by former German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert and publishing house Axel Springer, has appointed NEP to handle live production…
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Viaplay Group, the international subscription streaming broadcaster, will not launch in German-speaking markets as planned next year amid wider cost-cutting initiatives
Multi-sport
Media

This summer’s 2022 European Championships in Munich attracted more than 750 million viewer hours across the nine participating sports on free-to-air television and digital platforms, according to data r…
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Dyn Media, the German streaming platform to be launched by former German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert and publishing house Axel Springer, has completed its management team with…
Basketball

Europe’s top-tier basketball competition, EuroLeague, has regained momentum in the key markets of Germany and France, earning huge increases in both territories from 2022-23 onward and taking the competition past an important milestone.
Football

Holger Blask, managing director of marketing and sales at the DFB, tells SportBusiness Media the federation anticipated strong interest from broadcasters but was still “positively surprised” by the results.
American Football

The NFL is understood to have more than doubled its media rights income in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, capitalising on intense competition amid the league's snowballing popularity across the region.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Media giant Comcast is thought to be considering a sale of the German arm of Sky, as the European pay-television broadcaster’s total customer relationships increased by 320,000 to 23 million in the third q…
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has agreed a sublicensing deal with the Seven.One Entertainment Group agency granting its commercial broadcasting group ProSiebenSat