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 […]
ZDF slams Discovery in Olympic rights dispute
The head of the advertising sales department of German public broadcaster ZDF, Hans-Joachim Strauch, has fired harsh words at rights holder Discovery in the stalled negotiations regarding sublicences for the […]
ARD/ZDF in quarrel with Discovery over Olympic rights
German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF might not be able to transmit the Olympic Games in 2018 and 2020.
Sky Deutschland’s Bundesliga deal: Hefty price, but worth it
The award of the match packages in the 2017-2021 domestic football rights auction in Germany is probably optimal for Sky Deutschland (within the “no single buyer” constraint), according to research […]
Eurosport ends Sky’s hold on Bundesliga
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.
RTL secures German UEFA qualifier games
German commercial broadcaster RTL has acquired an extensive rights package containing qualifier games of the national German football team for World and European Championships.
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.
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 […]
German Bundesliga starts international rights tender
Around one year ahead of the expiration of the current contracts, DFL Sports Enterprises has announced the tender of the international audiovisual media rights of Germany’s domestic football league Bundesliga […]