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Mega announcement! Champions League final on free TV - but on one condition

2020-08-13T04:40:04.762Z


Football on free TV is a luxury good, but it could become mass-produced by the Champions League final. The ZDF broadcasts with German participation.


Football on free TV is a luxury good, but it could become mass-produced by the Champions League final. The ZDF broadcasts with German participation.

  • ZDF missed out on the rights to the Champions League * - Sky and DAZN secured rights packages.
  • Now there is good news, however, because the final of the premier class could be broadcast live on ZDF.
  • However, a team from the Bundesliga * would have to make it to the final.

Mainz - The broadcast rights for the Champions League * this season are held by the pay-TV channels Sky * and DAZN * - ZDF was left empty-handed. But should a German team make it to the final of the premier class , which is currently being held in the form of a blitz tournament in Portugal *, the game would be broadcast on public radio .

Champions League finals on free TV? In Germany only under special conditions

The finals will take place on Sunday, August 23, 2020 at the Estadio da Luz in Benfica Lisbon. If FC Bayern * or RB Leipzig * win their next two games, the ZDF program will have to be rescheduled. In this case, the final would be made available to the general public due to a legal claim of the public broadcaster.

This claim is regulated in the State Broadcasting Treaty. Events that are “of considerable social importance ”, such as the final of a club competition with German participation, should be accessible to everyone. The rights holders would therefore have to make it possible for the event to be seen “at least in a freely receivable and generally accessible television program”. DAZN, Sky and UEFA reached a mutual agreement with ZDF .

Champions League on ZDF? The broadcaster's sports director keeps his fingers crossed for the German participants

For thousands of fans without a subscription, this would be extremely good news . ZDF sports director Thomas Fuhrmann commented on the decision as follows: “We keep our fingers crossed for Bayern and Leipzig for the final tournament and are happy to be able to offer our viewers high-quality live football . A German-German final like 2013 would be great. ”That would mean: FC Bayern versus RB Leipzig.

With German participation, @ZDFsport will broadcast the #UefaChampionsLeague final on Sunday, August 23, 2020, live from Lisbon. https://t.co/DY6rQhWJaL #UCL pic.twitter.com/UDet3TdjOu

- ZDFpresse (@ZDFpresse) August 12, 2020

Champions League final on ZDF? Exciting quarter-finals of the Bundesliga clubs are coming up

In the case of a final without German participation, the usual pay TV channels would broadcast the final. The Bayern can come up with a win against Barcelona in the semi-final play and are given the title lost battle of the Catalans in the slight favorite role.

RB Leipzig also gets to do with a representative from Spain with Atletico Madrid. Curiously, both teams threw a previous year's finalist out of the competition in the round of 16 . Leipzig beat Tottenham twice without conceding and “Atleti” shocked the Klopp team from Liverpool FC.

In the future, pay TV could even be expanded to include competitions such as the European Championship in 2024, and one broadcaster has particularly distinguished itself in the Champions League rights in recent weeks and months. (ajr)

Source: merkur

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