Germany

Football

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital agreed a deal with the Brazil-based Traffic Sports agency for rights to the 2012 edition of the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Uefa Champions…
Football

More than 30 bids have been submitted for the domestic rights for German football’s Bundesliga, according to Christian Seifert, chief executive of the Deutsche Fussball Liga, the German league.
Football

German public-service broadcaster ARD criticised a decision by the country’s competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, to approve a media rights tender process by the domestic football league, the D…
Horse Racing

Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
American Football

American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
Football

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
Football

Uefa doubles its money in France but audiences will fall

Football

Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
Football

Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Athletics

IAAF goes back to EBU but says it was right to play the field; IEC anger at athletics loss
Football

The German football league, the Deutsche Fussball Liga, can finally send broadcasters its long-awaited invitation to tender for the media rights to the Bundesliga for the next rights cycle, following the…
Football

Ufa squeezed out as DFB gives Infront more rights
Ice Skating

German sports broadcaster Sport1 acquired rights to the 2012 editions of the Crashed Ice World Series ice skating event and the X-Fighters International Freestyle Motocross championships, events organised…
Football

The Vodafone Germany telco is considering a bid for German Bundesliga football rights as part of the expansion of its IPTV television service
Wrestling

German pay-television operator Sky Deutschland renewed its rights deal with Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling to cover 2012
Basketball

German sports channel Sport1 started streaming live basketball games online via its own channel on video-sharing website YouTube on December 10
Football

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF agreed on the split of matches to broadcast from Uefa Euro 2012
Football

Football: Korean IPTV broadcaster Spo TV acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League for the three-year period from 2012-13 to 2014-15 for $11.1m (€8m) (page 2).