German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland will continue to show the EHF Champions League games live and exclusive in Germany and Austria in the next three seasons.
Sky, Eurosport, Perform Group secure international Bundesliga rights
DFL Sports Enterprises has allocated the international Bundesliga rights for the four seasons from 2017/18 in Austria and Switzerland including Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol to Sky Deutschland, Eurosport and Perform Group’s sports portal DAZN.
Motorvision TV secures NASCAR until 2019
German car and motorsports channel Motorvision TV will continue to show US motorsports series NASCAR live and exclusive.
Eurosport to show Olympics exclusively in Germany
Eurosport will transmit the Olympic Games between 2018 and 2024 exclusively in Germany. The negotiations with public broadcasters ARD and ZDF regarding sublicences have failed.
Sky, ARD, ZDF secure Handball Bundesliga
The games and highlights of the German Handball Bundesliga will be shown by Sky Deutschland, ARD and ZDF from the next season.
RTL Deutschland secures NBC Universal movies
German broadcast group Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland has extended its contract with NBC Universal International Distribution, thereby securing the free-to-air TV rights for future movies and TV series as well as library titles.
ARD and ZDF secure UEFA Euro 2020
ARD and ZDF will be able to show all games of the European Football Championship 2020 live following an agreement reached by the German public broadcasters’ sports rights agency SportA with European football association UEFA.
Sky Deutschland secures Splendid Film package
German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland has acquired a movie rights package from German film production and sales company Splendid Film.
RTL and Sky acquire Bundesliga rights packages
German football association Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) has allocated the two remaining rights packages in the tender for the national Bundesliga rights across the four seasons between 2017/18 and 2020/21.
Discovery sublicenses Olympics to SRG in Switzerland
Discovery Communications has sublicensed extensive TV rights of the Olympic Games in 2018 and 2020 to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) enabling the public broadcaster to maintain its heritage of wide coverage of the competitions across its channels and platforms with a focus on Swiss athletes.