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Dutch commercial broadcaster RTL has extended its rights deal to the Uefa Europa League club football competition by striking a new three-year contract for the 2015-16 to 2017-18 seasons.

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

New F1 bidders emerge in Germany

SRO Motorsports, promoter of the GT Series motor-racing organisation, has agreed a host of new broadcast deals ahead of the start of the 2014 season.

Commercial broadcaster RTL has pulled out of the race to acquire domestic highlights rights for the Eredivisie, the top division of football in the Netherlands, according to the Totaal TV news website.

SRG faces no competition to hold on to F1 in Switzerland

Germany’s RTL snatches national team qualifier matches from under the nose of ARD/ZDF

Sky Deutschland is getting stronger but the big Bundesliga deal means it needs to pay less for other sport

RTL sold on the rights for one of this year’s World Cup ski-jumping events after a row with the FIS

France Télévisions believe that FIS must change to interest broadcasters.

Formula One Management to take over host-broadcasting from 2007 season.