Sky wins exclusive rights to Champions League in Germany

News Video Germany 13 JUN 2017
Sky wins exclusive rights to Champions League in Germany

Sky Deutschland has won the exclusive rights to show the Uefa Champions League in Germany and Austria. The pay-TV provider will broadcast the football matches from the 2018/19 season through 2020/21 across satellite, cable, IPTV, web and mobile platforms. Sky will issue a sub-licence to The Perform Group to show the matches on its streaming platform DAZN. 

This marks the first time the league will be available only on pay-TV in Germany. Previously broadcaster ZDF showed some matches on free-to-air TV, but ZDF was unable to justify the price for the rights this time around. According to a report from Wiwo.de, Sky may consider showing some of the matches on Sky Sports News, its free-to-air channel launched in 2016.

While no financial details of Sky's contract were announced, media reports suggested the company paid in the "hundreds of millions of euros". 

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Video,  Internet

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Sky Deutschland,  ZDF,  Perform Group

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Austria,  Germany

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