Germany
Sport1 retains women’s Volleyball Bundesliga rights to 2026 as PPV introduced
German sports broadcaster Sport1 has retained rights to Germany’s women’s Volleyball Bundesliga in a wide-ranging five-year agreement.
DFL Supercup streamed on TikTok as 9:16 vertical production rolled out
Football-based media platform OneFootball will stream live coverage in Brazil of tonight's DFL Supercup match between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in a 'vertical format' designed for smartphones…
Commercial growth, ‘long-term’ NHL players solution part of Reindl’s IIHF manifesto
Germany’s Franz Reindl, one of five candidates vying to succeed René Fasel as the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, has targeted higher commercial revenues from the sport’s lower-tier and …
DFL ups broadcast reach of 2. Bundesliga with enhanced feed powered by AWS
The German Football League (DFL) has expanded the global broadcast reach of the second-tier 2
Sky Deutschland agrees Amazon deal for Champions League in bars
Sky Deutschland, the German pay-television broadcaster, will offer live Tuesday evening Uefa Champions League coverage in its Sky Sportsbars across Germany after reaching an agreement with Amazon, the…
OneFootball adds 3. Liga, Women’s Bundesliga on PPV in Telekom deal
OneFootball, the football-based media platform, has teamed up with Deutsche Telekom’s MagentaSport OTT service to offer pay-per-view coverage of matches from Germany’s third-tier 3.Lig
ProSiebenSat.1 to showcase Bundesliga on new UHD channel
German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has detailed plans to showcase its Bundesliga football output on a new ultra high-definition channel.
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CLIQ Digital to stream Serie B in German-speaking countries
German digital lifestyle company CLIQ Digital has acquired rights in German-speaking countries to Serie B, the second tier of Italian club football
Sky adds women’s DFB-Pokal to men’s competition rights acquisition
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has built on its association with the German Football Federation’s DFB-Pokal by agreeing a five-season deal for rights to the women’s edition of the club com…
New DFB-Pokal domestic deals deliver fee increase of over 20 per cent
The German Football Federation (DFB) has today (Friday) signed off on new domestic broadcast deals for the DFB-Pokal worth an uplift of over 20 per cent on the current agreements
ARD and ZDF ‘secure’ DFB-Pokal free-to-air rights
German football’s DFB-Pokal is set to continue to be showcased on public-service television with ARD and ZDF said to have secured two packages of live rights from 2022-23 to 2025-26.
Sky renews OneFootball PPV distribution for 2. Bundesliga, DFB Pokal
Germany pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland and OneFootball have extended an agreement that will allow the football-focused digital platform to continue to offer Sky’s live coverage of the second-tier 2…
DAZN retains NBA rights in DACH region
Subscription streaming broadcaster DAZN has extended and expanded its broadcast rights agreement for North American basketball’s NBA in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
EXCLUSIVE: IMG awarded six-figure damages from TUI in Fifa in-ship rights case
The IMG agency has been awarded damages to compensate for lost rights fees in its lawsuit against the German arm of TUI Cruises following its live broadcasts of 2018 Fifa World Cup and 2019 Women’s World C…
FMA strikes another AFC rights deal in German-speaking countries
Live streaming service Sporttotal has acquired rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to the Asian Football Confederation’s final round of qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar.
ARD audience tops 27m for Germany’s Euro 2020 defeat to England
Germany’s 2-0 defeat at the hands of England at the Uefa European Championship attracted an average audience of 27.4 million viewers on ARD, the German public broadcaster.
Highest Euro 2020 audiences so far in France and Germany on dramatic night
Wednesday evening’s dramatic Group F encounters attracted the highest Uefa European Championship audiences so far in France, Germany and Portugal.
ARD activates option for Handball Bundesliga rights
German public-service broadcaster ARD has activated an option to extend its sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland for rights to the domestic Handball Bundesliga