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Formula 1 hammer: some races on free TV

2021-02-18T05:25:13.733Z


RTL is not completely turning its back on Formula 1 - although the TV broadcaster had only recently announced this due to an “overheated market”.


RTL is not completely turning its back on Formula 1 - although the TV broadcaster had only recently announced this due to an “overheated market”.

  • From mid-1991 until the end of 2020, RTL broadcast all Formula 1 races live on free-to-air television.

  • The pay-TV channel Sky secured the exclusive rights for the coming season. 

  • But now the Cologne private broadcaster has secured the free TV broadcasting rights for four races.

Cologne - U-turn at RTL.

As

tz *

found out, the Cologne-based private broadcaster will also broadcast Formula 1 races in 2021.

RTL bought four World Cup runs from rights holder Sky Deutschland, which the private broadcaster will broadcast on free television.

The U-turn is astonishing because RTL only left the premier class in June 2020 after 30 years.

"The competition for TV rights has changed, the market has partly overheated and thus left the economically justifiable framework that we have set ourselves," said RTL managing director Jörg Graf at the time, explaining the decision to exit.

It is not yet clear which four of the planned 21 races will be broadcast.

Christian Danner and Heiko Wasser will be broadcast as usual, Florian König will moderate and Kai Ebel will keep the paddock busy as a kind of jack-of-all-trades.

Nico Rosberg will act as an expert.

Timo Glock and Nico Hülkenberg are no longer available.

* tz.de belongs to the Ippen-Digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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