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Ismaning, 5 December 2008 – On Sunday 7 December, PLAZAMEDIA will produce a special tennis highlight to end the year: On behalf of MH Sportmarketing, Germany’s leading producer of sports TV will host-broadcast the exhibition match between tennis legends Boris Becker and Björn Borg.

A total of five PLAZAMEDIA cameras will be used for the production for Deutsches SportFernsehen DSF, who will show the match live from the AWD Dome in Bremen, Germany from 2.30 p.m. It will be the first meeting between three-time Wimbledon winner Becker and five-time Wimbledon winner Borg, as the two champions never played against each other in their heydays.

PLAZAMEDIA GmbH, an EM.Sport Media AG company, is one of the leading full-service providers for TV and new media and is also Germany’s largest producer of sports TV. Based in Ismaning near Munich, the company employs a full-time staff of 260 as well as 700 freelancers to produce content for television broadcasters and rights holders in the fields of domestic and international football, ice hockey, basketball, boxing, Formula 1, sailing and European and World Championships in a variety of sports. PLAZAMEDIA offers comprehensive services for OB production, broadcasting, new media, studio productions and post-production. The firm’s clients include Premiere, DSF, ARD, ZDF, RTL, SAT.1, ProSieben, RTL II, Disney Television International and Eurosport, as well as many other national and international companies. PLAZAMEDIA is managed by Florian Nowosad (CEO) and Zeljko Karajica.