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Football satellite TV schedule

Altice Group has been awarded ad Barclays Premier League exclusive broadcasting rights in France and Monaco and non-exclusive rights in Andorra, Luxembourg and Switzerland for the three seasons from 2016/17 to 2018/19.

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Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has secured a three-season extension to its rights deal for the Formula One championship.

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German commercial broadcaster RTL and pay-television Sky Germany have secured two remaining packages of Germany's top tier football leagues for the next four years.

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After the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that all TV and multi-platform broadcast rights in Europe for the four Olympic Games in the 2018–2024 period have been awarded to Discovery Communications, the parent company of Eurosport, many TV companies have started to plan their budgets for sublicensing rights.

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Super Bowl 50 will determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2015 season.

The game will be held on February 7, 2016 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Carolina Panthers and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos.

According to Bild, German public broadcaster ARD and pay-TV Sky Deutschland have retained the broadcast rights to the DFB-Pokal, Germany’s national knockout soccer cup, from the 2016/17 season. 

Bundesliga satellite TV schedule

The competition was founded in 1935, then called Tschammer-Pokal. The first titleholder were 1. FC Nuremberg. Bayern Munich have won the most titles (17) while Fortuna Düsseldorf hold the record for most consecutive tournament wins (18) between 1978 and 1981, taking the cup in 1979 and 1980.

EHF European Championship takes place from 15. to 31. January in Poland. Final match will be held on 31 january 2016 in Tauron Arena, Krakow.

Denmark is the team with most medals won in European Championship history with a total of six medals, those being two gold medals (2008, 2012), one silver (2014) and three bronze medals (2002, 2004 & 2006).

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German public-service broadcaster ARD has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal for German club football’s knockout competition, better known as DFB-Pokal.

The agreement with the German Football Association (DFB) covers the 2016-17 to 2018-19 seasons and follows a tender process that opened in August.

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D8, the digital-terrestrial television channel operated by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, has acquired rights in France for the next three editions of football’s UEFA Champions League final.

The final of the 2015-16 Champions League will take place on May 28 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy.

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Ice Hockey satellite TV schedule

German telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, has won the rights for the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the top division of the ice hockey in the country.

Eurosport France wins rights to televise Italy’s Coppa Italia football competition in France.

The Discovery-owned pay-TV broadcaster will show action from the knockout competition for at least the remainder of the current season, after making a deal with the B4Capital agency. 

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The Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the highest level of professional club basketball starts today with the match between Fraport Skyliners and last year champion Brose Basket.

Sport 1, which is free-to-air channel on Astra 19.2° satellite position, owned by Constantin medien AG, will cover the first match live and free.

Daily sport satellite TV schedule

Astra 19.2°E satellite position is a great sport TV source for box users. In this blog post we will provide a full sport (free-to-air) FTA list with a satellite details (frequency, encryption, polarisation) and main sport broadcasting rights.

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Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz has performed a complete u-turn and decided not to shut down his private television channel ServusTV, only a few days after announced that the broadcaster would be shut down after becoming economically unsustainable.

After 3 succesful years, German commercial broadcaster RTL has extended the rights for German national football team qualifiers ahead of the Uefa Euro 2020 and Fifa 2022 World Cup tournaments.

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Eleven Sports Network has announced a strategic partnership with Belgian broadcaster RTL, who will cover Live Serie A football. In addition to the Live Serie A TIM action on Club RTL, Belgian football fans will be able to watch Eleven's weekly European football review programme, Eleven United.

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Euro 2016 broadcasters and FTA free-to-air satellite TV channels

Great news for the football fans in Germany, all matches will be transmitted free-to-air (FTA). For the first time in its history, German commercial broadcaster Sat.1, will show games of a UEFA European Football Championship live.

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Servus TV, the commercial broadcaster owned by Red Bull, energy drinks brand, will encrypt its channel for satellite TV users in Austria via Astra 19.2°E satellite position from the start of the March. This move will affect both SD and HD channels.

MotoGP satellite TV schedule

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MotoGP satellite TV schedule

Great news for all MotoGP fans. Servus TV, the German commercial broadcaster owned by Red Bull, has acquired rights in Austria for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Premier League satellite TV schedule

Breaking news for football fans in Germany and Austria! Pay-TV Sky Deutschland has lost the rights to show English Premier League from the season 2016/17.