Germany

RTL’s acquisition of a package of 2010 World Cup matches from pay-operator Premiere is a win-win deal for both parties.

Basketball: German commercial broadcaster DSF acquired the live, delayed and highlights rights for the 2009 and 2011 FIBA European Championship and the 2010 FIBA World Championship from the Fédération Internationale de Basketball.

Football: German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 acquired the free-to-air rights for the Uefa Champions League.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF lost out on the rights to the Uefa Champions League and the Uefa Cup.

Leo Kirch is facing an impossible dilemma.

Ice hockey: Canadian cable sports broadcaster TSN extended its television rights deal with the National Hockey League for a further six years, through to 2013-14, in a contract worth at least C$200m (£101m/€127m). 

Audacious attempt to protect investment in Premiere and bolster near-monopoly on live Bundesliga rights

Football: Gioco Calcio, the fledgling pay-per-view football service launched this season by six small clubs from Italy’s Serie A, is likely to lose one or two of its clubs to pay-operator Sky Italia, a…

Proposed changes would lead to non-members being able to acquire substantial Olympics coverage from EBU members on fair and reasonable terms

Infront alleges that agency formed by Kirchmedia creditors to handle the Bundesliga rights was insolvent at the time it was sold

MediaPro pulls plug on DSF halfway through first match

Pay TV operator paid more than it wanted to for Bundesliga - €148m - but also reached understanding with rightsholder Infront over World Cup

Competition lawyers were not surprised that the commission has taken a different approach to the two leagues, even though European competition commissioner Mario Monti has said that he wanted the commission’s d…

Bundesliga allowed two extra years to change way it sell rights, EPL forced to make changes from next season

EBU facing crucial decision from European Commission on exemption from competition law

Formula One television viewing rose in four out of the five top European television markets this year, according to a survey by TV Sports Markets.  Germany was the exception.