According to information from the German Press Agency, Sky will no longer show the conference of Bundesliga games on Saturday afternoon starting next season. The Internet sports channel Dazn, which is also paid, secured package A with the rights for the conference circuit, which is a Sky invention. The rights for the 79 Sunday games (Package D) have also gone to Dazn.
Sky also received the controversial package B in the second attempt at the TV rights auction. The pay-TV broadcaster was awarded the contract for the live broadcasts of the Bundesliga on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and on Friday evening as well as the relegation games. Sky also received package C from the German Football League (DFL) with the games on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and with the Supercup. It is the smallest package with 34 games, but is in demand thanks to the top games. The Picture-Newspaper reported with similar information.
The DFL and Sky did not initially comment, nor did Dazn. The results of the auction are to be officially announced on Thursday after the DFL general meeting. The DFL has been auctioning off the TV rights for the Bundesliga since Monday. In the first week it was mainly about the pay TV games, which by far make up the largest part of the Bundesliga’s revenue. The DFL offer consists of a total of 15 TV packages for the 2025/26 to 2028/29 seasons, each of which will be awarded to the highest bidding broadcasters and media companies. Nothing has yet been announced about the price of the rights packages. The auction is of fundamental importance for the clubs, as TV money makes up the largest share of the budget.
This is the second attempt at the auction, after the first attempt in April had to be canceled after just one day. After the heated dispute between the DFL and the Internet broadcaster Dazn over a bank guarantee for the award of rights pact B with 196 live games, the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS) decided: The award made at the time to the pay-TV broadcaster Sky is ineffective . But Dazn didn’t win the contract either. The DIS verdict: The auction begins again. In the second week of the auction, the packages for free TV will be awarded within three days. The DFL offer for the early summaries on Saturday contains a few complicated details, which ARD in particular is putting under pressure with its “Sportschau”. Package I is available in two variants, called Compact and Classic.
At Kompakt, the highlights could be seen on freely accessible television on Saturday between 7:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Pay providers can even indirectly help finance the end of the “Sportschau” by making an additional payment. The Classic model allows summaries from 6 p.m. You would receive the “Sportschau” in its current form. A short version from 7:15 p.m. is out of the question for ARD, according to broadcaster circles. The “Tagesschau” airs on ARD at 8 p.m.
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