Bonn - The financing model of the German Football League (DFL) has come under pressure, the DFL feared million loss. The Federal Cartel Office insists that the future of the Bundesliga games promptly after the final whistle on free-TV (free-TV can be seen) to.
As the Authority announced in Bonn, met by the DFL's proposed marketing model of the TV broadcasting rights is not the antitrust requirements of appropriate consumer participation.
This participation is ensured, however, if the end user the choice between the combined live coverage on pay TV and a timely free TV highlights coverage will remain. This presupposes that it will transfer 20 clock. The competition watchdog to examine for the six months of the DFL-year contract with the Kirch subsidiary Sirius. The agreement has a volume of three billion euros.
