Germany

Wrestling

German commercial television channel Tele 5 has agreed a deal with the WWE wrestling organisation for the rights to its Monday Night Raw property.

Football

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, CyTA, has agreed a deal with pay-television broadcaster Lumiere to show coverage of the Bundesliga, the top division of football in Germany, according to the Cyprus Mail newspaper.

Football

The Lagardère Unlimited sports marketing division of media conglomerate Lagardère has announced it will centralise its European football resources.

Air Racing

German cable and satellite-television news channel N-tv has acquired rights for the Red Bull Air Race World Championship this year.

Air Racing

Servus TV, the German commercial broadcaster owned by energy drinks brand Red Bull, will show coverage of the returning Red Bull Air Race World Championship this year.

Basketball

Basketball Bundesliga’s big ambitions

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2013 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets E

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland’s acquisition of a significant minority stake in sports broadcaster Sport1 has been approved by the country’s federal cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt.

Basketball

German Basketball Bundesliga team Bayern Munich has announced that it will provide live streaming of all home league games via its official website.

Football

German Bundesliga top-tier football club Hertha Berlin has extended a deal with the Sportfive agency for the marketing of its media and commercial rights.

Hockey

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired exclusive rights for the 2014 Hockey World Cup and 2014 Champions Trophy tournaments, both of which are operated by the FIH, the sport’s global governing body.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has renewed a deal for live and delayed rights to the FIM Motocross World Championship and FIM Motocross of Nations national motorcycle events.

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1 has agreed a one-year extension to its rights deal for the World Rally Championship covering the 2014 season of the motor racing series.

Handball

Sport1 says it wants to be the home of handball in Germany

Germany’s Sport1 says it will not be run for the benefit of Sky Deutschland

Motorsport

A championship dominated by one driver, now four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, and the continued shift of live race coverage from free-to air to pay-television coincided with a drop in average…
Football

Murdoch pays Champions League premium in US and Germany

Ice Hockey

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights for the men’s and women’s ice hockey tournaments during the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.