Germany

Football

Canal Plus and the Polsat Media Group win Ekstraklasa rights to leave TP-TVN alliance with nothing
Football

Increased pay-TV revenues for Euro Qualifiers the key to Uefa's targets
Football

Uefa enjoys big increases for its Champions League and Europa League rights in Asia
Athletics

New viewing trends highlights the potential value of online rights especially in developing markets, report says

Equestrian

THe FEI believes its new rights deals will expand exposure and increase revenues over the next four years

Ice Hockey

NHL exploring several innovations to increase rights fees in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Tennis

Tennis: The IMG agency agreed a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, to advise on the distribution of the media rights for the US Open in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) and Australia,…
Rugby Union

Motorsport: Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF extended its rights deal with Formula One until 2014. The rights include interviews, archive footage, practice and qualifying rounds and the race itself
Athletics

Archive: UK pay-television operator ESPN agreed an archive sports programming deal with public-service broadcaster the BBC. More than 80 hours of archive footage will be shown on the ESPN Classic channel
Football

Football: Uefa, European football’s governing body agreed deals in Germany and Austria for the Champions League, Europa League and Super Cup for the period 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Football

Competition expected but package value hit by subtraction of centralised qualifier rights.
Football

Champions League rights in Germany sold as public-service broadcaster blows commercial incumbent out of water in bidding.
Baseball

Handball: EHF Marketing, the commercial arm of the European Handball Federation, signed media-rights deals with broadcasters in several territories
Badminton

Badminton: The Badminton World Federation, badminton’s governing body, signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, with IMG Media for the global exploitation of all media rights for the BWF's major e…

The EBU faced rival bids in Scandi, Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy as it tried to renew ASO rights.
Football

Sat.1, ZDF and RTL involved in early stages of Champions League bidding in Germany.

Opening up of German sports betting market mean acquisition could make sense, say experts.
Snooker

World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn on new deal with IMG Media.