Tele 5 extends WWE rights in Germany

German commercial broadcaster Tele 5 has extended a rights deal with the WWE wrestling organisation.

The new agreement will run for one year, until 2017.

Tele 5 will continue to show the ‘Monday Night Raw’ series on Thursdays at 22.15pm as well as four live WWE events in Germany over the course of the deal.

The first event covered by the agreement took place yesterday (Wednesday) in Bremen, with further events set to take place in Cologne today, Mannheim tomorrow and Magdeburg on Saturday.
Tele5 linked up with the WWE in April 2014.