Sky Wins German Champions League Soccer Broadcast Rights
- Perform Group’s DAZN is sub-licensee from next year until 2021
- Sky victory means German public broadcaster ZDF pushed out
The deal means Germans will have to pay to watch the likes of Real Madrid and Chelsea compete.
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Sky Plc won the rights to broadcast Champions League matches in Germany, allying with billionaire Len Blavatnik in a deal that’s likely to force soccer fans for the first time in Europe’s biggest economy to pay to watch the competition.
Sky won the rights to three seasons starting with 2018-2019 across satellite, cable TV, the web and mobile phones, according to a statement Tuesday. The company didn’t disclose the cost and said Blavatnik’s Perform Group Ltd., which runs the DAZN streaming service, is a sub-licensee.