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"We show a lot more sport than Sky"

2020-02-27T07:45:19.263Z


From Holzkirchen to the living room of sports enthusiasts all over Germany. thinXpool produces around 1,500 live sport events a year.


From Holzkirchen to the living room of sports enthusiasts all over Germany. thinXpool produces around 1,500 live sport events a year.

Holzkirchen - Albrecht Schmitt-Fleckenstein is one who realizes visions. In the 1990s, he helped set up the “ran” editorial team. At pay-TV broadcaster arena, he emphasized the coverage of the Bundesliga before going freelance with thinXpool. With his own media company, he implemented ice hockey, basketball and football broadcasts and established, among other things, the "Servus Hockey Night". Usually what he touches thrives.

Only one thing has so far not really worked out: an ice hockey match by his employees in the Hubertus Stadium in Holzkirchner. "So what?", You might think at first. But this company sport would also be of public interest, because the team, which is only a stone's throw away from the ice rink, consists largely of (ex) ice hockey professionals, who - among other things - the fastest team sport in the world from the market town to the living room bring.

When Patrick Ehelechner is touring the United States and the Germans in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the small edition of his KühlBox, the optical synonym for his interview format of the same name, his journey in Holzkirchen has begun. When the Holzkirchner DEL2 player Andreas Schwarz takes a close look at the U20 national team, to which he was not a member of the not so long ago, that happens in Thanner Strasse. And even when ex-national player Rick Goldmann, who recently packed the fascination of his sport between two book covers with "Ice Age", is planning his tour to the venues, this happens in Holzkirchen.

1500 live productions a year

"We have had our core editorial office here since 2010," says Albrecht Schmitt-Fleckenstein. He grew up in Düsseldorf with a season ticket for the Düsseldorfer EG, he came to the south with television. He has lived in Holzkirchen for many years and took advantage of the opportunity ten years ago when the rooms of a former doctor's office became vacant. Because he "didn't feel like commuting to Munich anymore". He quickly got fiber and set up a cutting place. He feels comfortable in a small-town environment that still has something nice and personal. "We have been here since then and it's just nice," says the man, satisfied with the fine feeling for the wishes of the sports audience. ThinXpool has its editing and disposition in Holzkirchen, the technology is in Unterföhring.

The permanent crew is made up of twelve people. There are 140 freelance moderators and commentators all over Germany. They create more than 1,500 live productions a year, which keep Magenta Sport customers up to date with reports and backgrounds. "We produce a lot more sport than Sky," says Schmitt-Fleckenstein. This includes live broadcasts of all 380 games in the third soccer league, the women's soccer Bundesliga, the Audi Cup and the "FC BayernTV LIVE" broadcaster, around 500 basketball games per season and the weekly podcast "Basketball Department". The German Ice Hockey League (DEL) is similarly extensive; 14 games every weekend plus conference on Friday.

Ice hockey reporting needs experts

If thinXpool already had a staff of basketball employees at the start of 2014, Schmitt-Fleckenstein recalls the initial challenges when ice hockey came three years later. It is a sport that you cannot just learn. Here you need real understanding and passion. All the more so since most of the viewers really have a clue and do not want to be superficially fed off. The boss is accordingly happy with his team. "It doesn't get any better than this", he is convinced and shakes a few top-class players up his sleeve: Sven Felski, record player at the Eisbären Berlin, Basti Schwele, who went from the foundation to the 2nd Bundesliga (now DEL2) with EHC Munich , or the former DEL record player Andi Renz.

Ice hockey enthusiasts regularly enjoy the casually but well-founded expertise. Just as you would do it if the idea of ​​a charity game in the Hubertus Stadium became reality at some point.

Source: merkur

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