🚨 What does this mean for fans? German broadcaster buys Sky | OneFootball

This news could have a significant impact on us football watchers: RTL wants to buy the German division of the pay-TV broadcaster 'Sky'. The media company announced this today, Friday.

The Bertelsmann subsidiary RTL announced its intention to acquire 100 percent of Sky's businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and South Tyrol from the US media group Comcast on a cash and debt-free basis.

"We see ourselves in conjunction with Sky as a clear national media champion in Germany, with all the prerequisites and resources to compete with the US platforms," declared Thomas Rabe, the CEO of Bertelsmann and the RTL Group, to the news agency 'Reuters'.

The merger of RTL and Sky brings together two of Europe's strongest entertainment and sports brands and creates a unique video offering in free-TV, pay-TV, and streaming. With approximately 11.5 million paying streaming subscribers in the future, the joint company in Germany is catching up with the major US competitors. The streaming services RTL+ and Sky's Wow would then together be clearly ahead of Disney in third place, but still well behind market leaders Netflix and Amazon Prime.

It remains to be seen what this step means for fans or for the wallets of football watchers.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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