Germany

American Football

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has extended and expanded an agreement with the German Football League (GFL) and will cover up to 15 games from the American football competition in 2021
Ice Hockey

Commercial Sports Media, the Sweden-based sports marketing agency and consultancy, is to market international broadcast rights to Germany’s premier ice hockey league, the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
Handball

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has claimed a first by teaming up with telco O2 for what it claims will be the first end-to-end 5G transmission of a sports fixture in Europe
Handball

Online streaming service Sportdeutschland.TV, which is operated by the media arm of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), has acquired rights to handball’s Women’s Euro 2020. Sportdeutschland.TV
Football

Private equity companies are thought to have approached the German Football League (DFL) about acquiring a minority stake in Bundesliga International, the league’s international commercial rights sales a…
Football

Sports technology provider Deltatre has acquired a majority stake in Sportec Solutions, the joint venture it set up with the German Football League (DFL) to collect and innovate around match data
Multi-sport

Telco and cable operator Vodafone will be the first to resell the DAZN OTT streaming platform as part of its offering, including the two new linear DAZN channels
Multi-sport

Charly Classen, previously a leading figure at ESPN’s international business, has been named as the new executive vice-president of sports at German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland, replacing J…
Multi-sport

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has extended its distribution deal with satellite operator SES Astra
Esports

The German Football League (DFL) has entered into a strategic partnership with Sweden-based ESL, the world’s largest esports company, to further develop the Virtual Bundesliga.
Multi-sport

Third-quarter revenues at Comcast-owned European pay-television broadcaster Sky reached $4.79bn, a 5
Esports

German sports broadcaster Sport1 will launch a new pan-European esports channel on November 3 following the launch of the eSports1 channel in its home market at the start of 2019
Football

Karlsruher SC of German football’s 2.
Football

Subscription OTT streaming platform DAZN has aligned with social media platform TikTok and German football portal Kicker to launch a ‘Football Hub’ product for the German market.
Football

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has boosted its sports rights portfolio by extending a content-sharing agreement with DAZN, giving it access to select rights from the streaming service’s portfolio, w…
Multi-sport

Subscription streaming service DAZN has applied to the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority (Mabb) in Germany for permission to distribute linearly to households its two sports channels in the country
Football

France’s Division 1 Féminine, the top tier of women’s football in the country, is to receive broadcast coverage in the US, UK, Germany and Italy from the 2020-21 season.
Multi-sport

Sport1 Medien-owned production company Plazamedia has extended its production deal with telco Deutsch Telekom into the 2020-21 season, significantly expanding its services for the telco’s MagentaSport c…