RTL will withdraw from Formula 1 from 2021. The motorsport premier class can then only be seen on pay TV. And not only that.
- The Formula 1* and the transmitter RTL go separate ways after this season.
- How RTL announced, the TV station will be out of the 2020 season Live reporting get out.
- Since 1991 shows RTL the formula 1 in Germany.
- Formula 1 is only available from 2021 Sky to see.
Update from June 23, 11:15 p.m .:
Sebastian Vettel is in his last season at Ferrari. The Formula 1 magnate Bernie Ecclestone, a friend of his
* fears with the ex-world champion – and says goodbye to RTL in connection with the Heppenheimer.
Update from June 22, 4 p.m .: Now it’s official: The formula 1 from the 2021 season, it will only be available from the pay TV broadcaster Sky to see.
The media company from Unterföhring near Munich announced this Monday afternoon. The group also announced one Formula-1 Transmitter who only reports 24 hours a day about the premier class of motorsport.
According to their own information Sky make only four races freely accessible. The free TV station RTL shows Formula 1 only until the end of this season, which is scheduled to start on July 5. The Cologne-based company had arisen from the negotiations over the market because of the allegedly overheated market TV rights withdrawn.
Sky chases RTL: Formula 1 rights exclusive in Germany in future
Sky has been broadcasting in parallel RTL and has now secured “long-term exclusive broadcasting rights”. The pay TV broadcaster wants all race weekends of the formula 1 broadcast live, from the first free practice to the race on Sunday.
Duel between Ferrari and Mercedes at the Austrian Grand Prix.
© picture alliance/dpa / Georg Hochmuth
No information was given about the purchase price. On the same day, the company announced that it had bought three bundles from the Bundesliga. Sky is also announcing a program offensive with four new channels.
With Sky Sport F1 the company, which belongs to the US group Comcast, wants “the first linear Formula-1 Transmitter on German television, which only shows motorsport content 24 hours a day ”.
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*? The cult reporter speaks out on Instagram.
Update from June 22, 11:30 a.m .: It is a real TV hammer! From the coming season (2021) the formula 1 no more at RTL can be seen on free TV – but only on Sky.
TV rights in Formula 1: ServusTV as an option for German motorsport fans?
For German motorsport fans, however, there could be a kind of hideout. So the portal brings motorsport-total.com a possible engagement of the Austrian broadcaster ServusTV in the game. It is a subsidiary of the Red Bull group of billionaires Dietrich Mateschitzwho in turn has had his own for years Formula 1 team entertains.
The motorsport portal relies on an interview by Red-Bull-Gründer and -Boss with the Salzburg News from February 2020. “We are basically not a sports broadcaster” Mateschitz At that time said: “We have to think carefully about such an option.”
Red Bull founder: Dietrich Mateschitz.
© dpa / Jan Woitas
And yet the 76-year-old Mateschitz, who is friends with FC Bayern Honorary President Uli Hoeneß *, completed an acquisition of TV Rights on the prominent motorsport series.
„Formula 1 rights are always interesting for a broadcaster, but we cannot say anything about it now. We have to wait and see how that ORF decides and what Sky does, “said Mateschitz at the time:” It simply depends on the market situation. We watch them and they always have to be interesting. “
Also DerStandard had an interest from ServusTV reported on television and streaming marketing. Accordingly, the public service ORF wants his TV rights to Formula 1 extend.
What does that mean for German motorsport viewers? Both that ORF as well as ServusTV are partly available in the south of the republic. Especially when looking through the online media library, the question should be whether the Formula 1 transmission would be blocked outside of Austria.
It remains confused – and exciting.
TV rights in Formula 1: RTL gets out after almost three decades
First registration – Munich – Bitter news for all German Formula 1 fans. RTL
announced that it would exit reporting after this season. The station has been showing Formula 1 * since 1991.
Where the Formula 1* from 2021 onwards is not yet known. However, there is a fear that the premier class of motorsport will overflow into pay TV from next season. So far, the pay-TV channel Sky has also shown Formula 1, but Sky also expires at the end of the season.
RTL gets out of Formula 1: “When there are competitors in the game who are willing to offer double …”
“If Competitors are in the game, who are willing to offer the double, you have to deal with an exit scenario inevitably, “said RTL sports director Manfred Loppe.
“The competition for TV rights has changed, the market has overheated in some cases and has thus left the very ambitious, yet economically justifiable framework that we have set ourselves”, said RTLManaging Director Jörg Graf and announced: “We will now focus on the Soccer as TV sport number 1 and concentrate on our recently acquired rights package. ”Meanwhile, RTL weather moderator Bernd Fuchs delivered a cheerful moment in which he could not control a fit of laughter in a live broadcast.
RTL no longer shows Formula 1 – is Vettel’s exit from Ferrari one of the reasons?
RTL has accompanied the Formula 1* in Germany and with it the meteoric rise of Michael Schumacher to record world champion. Sebastian Vettel’s exit from Ferrari * next year and the likely scenario that there will be no German racing driver in Formula 1 from the coming season could be the decision of RTL have also played a role.
Perhaps Vettel is also drawn to Ferrari competitor Mercedes – the Ferrari boss recently commented on a change and surprised with a Hamilton statement.
RTL currently owns football Broadcasting rights of the Internationals as well as for the Europa League and the new one Europa Conference League. The Conference League is to be held from the 2021/22 season and will be the third most important continental competition in Europe after the Champions League and the Europa League.
However, with another decision, the broadcaster RTL meets with little positive response from viewers. They even threaten to boycott the show.
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Rubriklistenbild: © picture alliance/dpa / Georg Hochmuth
