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ARD and ZDF, the public-service broadcasters in Germany, have regained rights directly to the Uefa European Championship in 2028, it has emerged

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have announced a new deal with Uefa for rights to Germany's men’s national team matches.

Deutsche Telekom's offer to negotiate with free-to-air linear broadcasters in Germany over a sub-licensing rights deal for the ongoing Fiba Basketball World Cup appears to have fallen on deaf ears

Fifa avoided a momentum-killing Women’s World Cup television blackout in five major markets after a financial and diplomatic intervention from the European Broadcasting Union.

Subscription sports broadcaster DAZN has picked up rights in Germany to show highlights from the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup.

Fifa has extended its media rights agreement for the 2023 Women’s World Cup with the European Broadcasting Union, ensuring the tournament will be screened in the major markets of France, Germany, Italy, S…

ARD has announced a sublicensing deal with telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom that will see the public-service broadcaster and its regional affiliates show live coverage of 68 matches from 3

Streaming platform Dyn Media has announced a sublicensing agreement with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF ahead of its launch later this year

Sunday’s gripping Fifa World Cup final between Argentina and France attracted strong audiences across free-to-air broadcasters in Europe, although figures in Germany were down on previous finals not i…

Spain’s dramatic loss to Japan at the Fifa World Cup netted an average audience of 9.7 million viewers on La1, the main channel of public-service broadcaster RTVE.

An average audience of 9.2 million people tuned into German broadcaster ARD’s coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup match between Germany and Japan amid new protests against Fifa’s ban on ‘OneLove’ armbands.

Holger Blask, managing director of marketing and sales at the DFB, tells SportBusiness Media the federation anticipated strong interest from broadcasters but was still “positively surprised” by the results.

Deutsche Telekom has acquired exclusive live rights to all 3. Liga matches from 2023-24 to 2026-27 while also picking up a share of rights to the women’s Bundesliga.

Live coverage of the athletics events at Munich’s multi-sports European Championships netted an average audience of 4.15 million viewers last night on ARD, the German public broadcaster.

Gymnastics, sport climbing and triathlon events at Munich’s European Championships have all attracted audiences of over 2 million viewers on ARD, the German public-service broadcaster.

England’s historic win over Germany last night in the final of the Uefa Women’s Euro delivered record audiences for both the BBC and ARD.

This week’s Uefa Women’s Euro quarter-final matches registered strong ratings in participating countries as the tournament continues to outshine the viewing figures at the last edition in 2017.

Saturday evening’s DFB-Pokal final between RB Leipzig and Freiburg was watched by an average of 8.1 million viewers on German public-service television.