Sky Deutschland has kept most of the Bundesliga pay-TV rights in the tender for the 2017/18 to 2020/21 seasons, but Discovery subsidiary Eurosport has managed to secure a key package.
Discovery Communications expands reach of its content
Discovery Communications has completed a number of deals including an expanded partnership with Vodafone in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Eurosport close to Wimbledon rights deal
Eurosport is to share coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships with the BBC.
Sky Deutschland hit by no-single-buyer rule for Bundesliga rights
A TV broadcaster will in future not be able to acquire all domestic pay-TV rights for the live games of Germany’s national football league Bundesliga across all distribution platforms.
RTÉ appoints Discovery’s Forbes as new DG
Dee Forbes, the President & Managing Director of Discovery Networks Northern Europe, has been named as the new director-general of RTE.
German Bundesliga starts national rights tender
Germany’s national football association Deutsche Fußball-Liga (DFL) has announced the tender for the allocation of the national TV rights covering the games of the first and second division Bundesliga and […]
Kiss Media and Discovery to launch DTT channel in Spain
Spanish media company Kiss Media and Discovery are launching a new DTT channel, DKiss.
Name changes for Italian DTT channels
Two Italian digital terrestrial channels have a new name: MTV8 has become TV8, and DeeJay TV is now Nove Deejay.
Accord between Discovery and Canal Digital
Agreement has been reached in the carriage dispute that took Discovery, Eurosport and TV Norge off air in the Nordic region.
New owner for Turner channels in Russia
Media Alliance, a joint venture between the National Media Group (NMG) and Discovery, is set to buy Turner’s assets in Russia.