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DMC acquires Plazamedia from Sport1, merges with RT1.TV

July 10, 2025 10.45 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German media group Sport1 Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Highlight Communications, has sold its subsidiary Plazamedia to sports production company DMC Production.

Filed Under: Finance, Newsline, Production Tagged With: DMC Production, DMC Production Germany, Highlight Communications, Holger Enßlin, Jens Friedrichs, Paul Henriksen Heitmann, Plazamedia, Robin Seckler, rt1.media group, RT1.TV, RT1.TV mobile.production, Sport1 Media Edited: 11 July 2025 14:30

Acunmedya finalises 50% acquisition of Sport1

August 2, 2024 20.48 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Acunmedya’s investment in Sport1 has been finalised: The Turkish media company acquires 50% of the shares in the German sports broadcaster.

Filed Under: Finance, Newsline, TV Tagged With: Acun Il?cal?, Acunmedya, Bernhard Burgener, Exatlon, Highlight Communications, Matthias Kirschenhofer, Robin Seckler, Sport1, Sport1 Medien Edited: 7 August 2024 16:49

Acunmedya acquires stake in Sport1

February 23, 2024 07.43 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Turkish media company Acunmedya is acquiring 50% of the shares in German sports TV broadcaster Sport1.

Filed Under: Finance, Newsline, TV Tagged With: Acun Il?cal?, Acunmedya, Bernhard Burgener, Highlight Communications, Sport1 Edited: 23 February 2024 08:16

Sport1 founds S1 Technology Hub in Warsaw

October 5, 2023 10.34 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German media company Sport1 has founded its own technology subsidiary, the S1 Technology Hub, based in the Polish capital Warsaw.

Filed Under: Newsline, Production, TV Tagged With: Highlight Communications, Julian Frost, S1 Technology Hub, Sport1, Tim Schnabel Edited: 5 October 2023 10:34

Highlight Communications evaluates sale of Sport1

June 14, 2023 17.06 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

The board of directors of Swiss media company Highlight Communications is currently examining various strategic options such as cooperations, M&A options and other comparable measures for the development of German […]

Filed Under: Finance, Newsline, TV Tagged With: Highlight Communications, Sport1, Sport1 Medien Edited: 14 June 2023 17:06

Fred Kogel to head Constantin Medien

December 14, 2015 20.40 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Fred Kogel will become the new CEO of German media company Constantin Medien on January 1, 2016.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, People Tagged With: Bernhard Burgener, Constantin Film, Constantin Medien, Fred Kogel, Highlight Communications, Olaf Schröder, Plazamedia, Sport1 Edited: 16 December 2015 12:10

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