DGAP-News: SPORTTOTAL AG: Women's basketball upper leagues (DBBL) now exclusively on sporttotal

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SPORTTOTAL AG: Women's basketball upper leagues (DBBL) now exclusively on sporttotal

- 10-year cooperation agreement inked
- Automated broadcasting of all the matches

Cologne, August 19, 2019. sporttotal is evolving into a genuine multisports-platform: Apart from amateur soccer, first-league volleyball, ice hockey, field hockey and futsal, when the season kicks off on September 21, 2019, first league women's basketball will be broadcast. In this context, DBBL, the umbrella organization of Germany's Women's Basketball Leagues (DBBL, Damen Basketball Bundesligen GmbH) and sporttotal.tv gmbh, a 100 percent subsidiary of SPORTTOTAL AG, have concluded a cooperation agreement for the medialization of the top women's basketball leagues. The exclusive agreement has a ten-year term.

With this agreement, sporttotal as medialization partner will receive the broadcasting rights for the ten-year contractual period, and will be broadcasting the entire women's first basketball league as of the 2019/2020 season for the first time. The sports venues of the 12 first league clubs will be equipped with sporttotal's fully automated camera technology and will broadcast all of the matches exclusively.

Caroline Päffgen, Director of sporttotal.tv gmbh: "We are very pleased to have forged this partnership with one of Germany's top leagues. We are strongly committed to creating greater awareness of this exciting, dynamic sport here in Germany with its sportswomen. Step by step, sporttotal, as a multisport platform with a powerful coverage, is gaining an ever sharper profile and visibility."

Andreas Wagner, Director of the 1. DBBL Work Group: "Together with sporttotal, basketball as a sport will be presented in a more innovative manner. Thanks to medialization, our sport will gain greater visibility. Worldwide, basketball is one of the most popular sports. We would like to invite all sports enthusiasts to discover basketball and its sportswomen in future. Together with sporttotal, we want to make this as attractive and convenient as possible."

About SPORTTOTAL AG:

SPORTTOTAL AG (ISIN: DE000A1EMG56), headquartered in Cologne, is a technology and media company on a growth path in the rapidly scalable digital business with video platforms and communities (DIGITAL), in the high-margin national and international project business (VENUES), as well as in the live events business (LIVE). The company, which was founded in 1979, operates a high-traffic portal with strong growth for online sport videos and live streaming. The company equips amateur football clubs with special video technology which enables sports events to be transmitted live in a high quality and fully automatically on "sporttotal". SPORTTOTAL AG's service portfolio also comprises the technical equipping of racing circuits and sports facilities, as well as the production and marketing of sports events such as the ADAC TOTAL 24-Hour Race at the Nürburgring. In addition, SPORTTOTAL AG also produces content for prestigious companies such Porsche, Audi, Mercedes/AMG, Red Bull and VW and organises high-calibre live events such as the Porsche Experience.

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