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Sport1, Magic Sports Media to launch new betting service

Sport1 and Magic Sports Media have signed a long-term agreement with Better Collective, the sports betting media group: The partnership includes delivery of content, data, and statistics for a new sports betting section at Sport1.de to bring in sports betting content to its near 9 million unique users monthly. The partnership will be co-branded with […]

August 10, 2022

Bank: “German broadband faces structural change”

Jefferies says there are clear signs of structural change within the German broadband market. “Ninety per cent of growth is now driven by fibre,” notes a report from the investment bank . “However, a slower market means absolute broadband intake is unsustainable at historical levels.” Jeffferies, in its report to clients, focuses on Deutsche Telekom […]

July 26, 2022

Böing named Liberty Networks Germany CEO

Liberty Networks Germany, the joint venture launched last year by Liberty Global Ventures, the investment arm of Liberty Global, and InfraVia Capital Partners to build full-fibre networks in Germany, has appointed Christian Böing as CEO. Böing’s previous roles include CEO oat web-hosting companies Strato and IONOS. Prior to that, he held roles at communications company […]

July 21, 2022

Report: Pay-TV market growing in GSA region

The pay-TV and SVoD market is continuing to grow in Germany, Austria and Switzerland according to the Pay TV and Paid VoD in Germany 2021/2022 report published by VAUNET. In Germany, total revenue from pay television and paid VoD in 2021 rose by 13.1 per cent to reach €4.7 billion, and is expected to grow […]

July 20, 2022

Steinbusch appointed CEO of EMG Germany

European broadcast service provider, EMG, has announced the appointment of industry veteran René Steinbusch as the CEO of EMG Germany. He succeeds Stefan Hoff, who is stepping down from the position after 14 years of steering the German operations through many changes – most notably the transfer of Nobeo to EMG Germany and the merger […]

July 4, 2022

Germany: SPORT1 to broadcast The World Games 2022

The World Games 2022 will take place from July 7th to July 17th in Birmingham in the US state of Alabama. At the eleventh edition of the multi-sport event, 3,600 athletes from 110 nations will compete for more than 600 medals in 34 sports. Germany is competing at these World Games with the second-largest line-up […]

June 30, 2022

Paramount+ plans 150 originals by 2025

Paramount+, the SVoD service from Paramount Global, has announced its investment in internationally originated content with a slate of original series that will debut around the world, a first step towards the streamer’s plan to commission 150 international originals by 2025. The news comes in advance of Paramount+’s expansion to the UK and Ireland on June 22nd, […]

June 20, 2022

Starlink uses Germany to file for new satellites

SpaceX’s Starlink broadband system has used Germany’s BNetZA (Bundesnetzagentur), the country’s Federal regulatory office for telecommunications, for a number of new satellite filings. The filings were made on behalf of Starlink’s German subsidiary. The German regulatory office will handle the applications with the International Telecommunications Union. The filings cover a total of 6,184 satellites working […]

May 24, 2022By Chris Forrester

NHK World-Japan expands German presence

NHK World-Japan, the English-language international service of Japan’s public media organisation NHK, is increasing its activities in Germany: The 24-hour TV channel NHK World-Japan is now available on streaming platform Zattoo. Viewers can receive the channel in the free basic package (SD) with the HD version being offered in the Premium and Ultimate packages. NHK […]

May 23, 2022

ANGA COM: “Successful return” with 18,000 participants

ANGA COM this week celebrated a successful restart after a two-year break. Event organisers said that exhibitors and visitors were enthusiastic about the quality of the exhibition, the conference programme, the open air plaza and the numerous evening events. The show reported more than 18,000 participants over the three days from May 10th to 12th, […]

May 13, 2022