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German public-service broadcaster ARD has delayed its decision over whether to return to live coverage of the Tour de France cycling race until the new year.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF will continue to show the Volleyball Bundesliga, the sport’s top division in the country, under an extended multi-year deal.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have pulled out of talks to acquire rights for handball’s 2015 men’s World Championships.

The German football federation, the Deutscher Fußball-Bund, last week secured a small fee increase for a host of rights in a renewal with public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF.

ARD chairman Lutz Marmor has said the German public-service broadcaster will make a decision over a possible return to live coverage of the Tour de France cycling race by the end of this year.

German regional public-service broadcaster WDR has given its approval to the acquisition of 2022 Fifa World Cup national football team media rights by national public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF.

Public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have extended their deal with the German Football Association (DFB), which includes national team and club competition rights, through to mid-2018.

SportA, the sports rights agency for ARD and ZDF, has agreed a deal with sports broadcaster Sport1 to extend the German public-service broadcasters’ coverage of the Handball Bundesliga through the 2016-17 season.

SportA, the sports rights agency for German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, has agreed a two-year sublicensing deal with telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom for rights to the Basketball Bundesliga, the top division of the sport in Germany.

The Sportsman Media Group agency has agreed a two-year extension to its contract with SportA, the sports rights agency for German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, to cover the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in key European markets for last month’s European Athletics Championships

German public-service broadcaster ARD will consider showing boxing bouts beyond the end of this year on an ad hoc basis and is considering bringing back coverage of the Tour de France cycling race, according to spokeswoman Anna Engelke.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have expressed an interested in returning to airing the Tour de France cycling race.

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences in the major European markets and America for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

The World Cup rights deals signed by Fifa in the UK and Germany just before the current tournament kicked off confirmed the difficulties the governing body has had in securing decent fee increases in both markets and in Europe generally.

German public-service broadcaster ARD has agreed to take up its one-year extension option for rights to the DTM German touring cars series.