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ProSieben enters football market with DFB deal
Premier League earns big increase for rights in the DACH region
Eurosport secures DFB-Pokal rights in Poland
International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in Poland for the DFB-Pokal, the top domestic football knockout competition in Germany.
Deutsche Telekom pays up to expand domestic rights portfolio
Handball league awaits offers as Sport1 ties up other properties
The German handball league, the Handball-Bundesliga, will receive bids for its domestic media rights one week from today, TV Sports Markets understands.
DFB the biggest winner in swathe of deals
Germany’s football federation is set to earn about 35 per cent more from domestic media rights to its knockout cup competition, with deals to be announced in the coming weeks.
DFB-Pokal rights tender attracts 12 potential bidders
Twelve companies have expressed an interest in acquiring rights for the DFB-Pokal German knockout club football tournament.
DFL opens up Bundesliga archive with new VOD platform
The German Football League (DFL) has said it will launch a new video-on-demand platform focusing on the history of the Bundesliga, with pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland signing on as its first partner.
Infront set to land expanded DFB Cup deal
The German Football Association (DFB) intends to extend and expand its partnership with the Infront Sports & Media agency for the DFB Cup club competition.
DFB holds value despite lack of competition
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.
German FA extends rights deals with 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.
BT Sport adds Germany friendlies and DFB Cup to football line-up
UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has enhanced its German football coverage by agreeing a deal for rights to the national team’s home friendly matches, along with the DFB Cup – the domestic club knockout competition.
German football association launches rights tender
The DFB, the German football association, has launched a tender for the domestic media rights to Germany national team, lower-league and women’s football matches.
Ten Sports snaps up DFB Cup rights
Pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports, which operates in the Indian subcontinent, has acquired rights for the DFB Cup club football tournament in Germany.
Bundesliga amends rights distribution model
Media rights income is to be distributed by the German Bundesliga to football clubs in the country’s top two divisions based on their exploits in previous campaigns rather than the current season, according to news agency DPA.
Bayern Munich offers to share wealth from ARD cup broadcasts
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.
RTL deal shakes up German market
Germany’s RTL snatches national team qualifier matches from under the nose of ARD/ZDF