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The world swimming federation earned a small fee increase in its renewal last week with Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi.

Interview with Peter Hall, Fina’s head of marketing TV, on the federation’s new deal with commercial broadcaster TV Asahi in Japan.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 last month picked up rights to the Fiba World Cup, which takes place in August, in a cash and airtime deal.

The German Ski Association, the Deutscher Skiverband (DSV), secured a small increase in the value of its media rights outside Germany in a renewal with the Infront Sports & Media agency this week.

New F1 bidders emerge in Germany

ARD/ZDF interest drives value of Wimbledon rights in Sky deal in Germany

German public-service broadcaster ARD has decided not to renew a rights deal with the Sauerland boxing agency, according to the Digital Fernsehen news website.

World football’s governing body Fifa has denied reports that German public-service broadcaster ZDF’s coverage of the 2014 World Cup will be available to viewers in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

German Bundesliga football club Bayern Munich has said it would be willing to share revenues gained from public-service broadcaster ARD’s broadcasts of its games in the domestic DFB-Pokal cup competition with smaller German teams.

German public-service broadcaster ARD is coming under pressure to opt against renewing a rights deal with the Sauerland boxing agency.

Sport1 says it wants to be the home of handball in Germany

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights for the men’s and women’s ice hockey tournaments during the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF will broadcast the Fifa World Cup in its entirety for the first time since 1998 after receiving no sub-licensing proposals for next year’s tournament from rival broadcasters.

Tour de France commits early to EBU despite interest from agencies and pay-TV companies