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Fifa World Cup deals in Germany and Sweden
Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals in Germany and Sweden for the Fifa World Cup finals.
Sportsman completes Spanish football hat-trick with cup rights
The Sportsman Media Group agency acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the final of Spanish football’s domestic cup competition the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa, the a…
Basketball Bundesliga in talks with five broadcasters for domestic rights
The Basketball Bundesliga, Germany’s domestic basketball league, is in talks with pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland, commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1
Sky’s F1 channel gets 874,000 for first live grand prix
Sky Sports F1, the new Formula One-dedicated channel from UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB, attracted an average audience of 874,000 for its live coverage of Sunday’s season-opening Australian grand p…
Constantin Medien looks for investors in sports division
The Constantin Medien media company, which owns the Team Marketing agency and German sports broadcaster Sport1, is looking for investors for its sports division, but is not willing to sell the unit, according…
MP & Silva to edge out IMG in close battle for FA Asian rights
FA set for small increase in Asia with new MP & Silva deal
Uefa gets 30% rise in Germany with ARD/ZDF deal
ARD/ZDF pay 30% increase for Euro but could have paid more
MP & Silva taps into French boom to double values
MP & Silva doubles up in France with league rights
Sauerland wants more Super Six
Sauerland wants more
DFL creates media production subsidiary
The Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German football league, is setting up a subsidiary company to handle the production of its media content
Sportsman renews La Liga rights in Germany and Austria
The Sportsman Media Group agency will continue to distribute the rights for Spanish football’s top-tier league, La Liga, in Germany and Austria, after agreeing a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, w…
Eurosport to provide coverage of Algarve Cup football
Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport acquired rights in Germany for two games at the 2012 Algarve Cup women’s national team football tournament in Portugal.
Vodafone pulls out of German Bundesliga rights race
Friedrich Joussen, Vodafone Germany’s chief executive, said that the telecommunications company would not bid for domestic rights for the Bundesliga, the German football league.
Three questions for the Bundesliga
Three hurdles for Bundesliga in domestic rights sales
NBA bounces back from lockout with a series of deals
Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning
EBU splits again for World Cup bids
EBU splits again over World Cup bids
Uefa secures big fee increase in German Euro 2016 deal
German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF agreed to pay a big increase in rights fee to jointly acquire rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament
Motorvision TV acquires Nascar rights
German-based pay-television broadcaster Motorvision TV acquired exclusive rights to US motor racing’s Nascar Sprint Cup series in German-speaking Europe.