DFL: German league broadcasts the first football match in a 9:16 format specially for smartphones

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The DFL tested the broadcasting of a football match in a 9:16 format (vertically adapted for viewing on social networks on smartphones), for VfL Wolfsburg - Werder Bremen SV (2-3), Matchday 13 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga season, on 01/12/2019, "a world first," according to the German football league on 04/12/2019.

The broadcast was carried out...

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