Germany: "Watching the Champions League will be simpler and less expensive" (Ralf Kleber, Amazon)

"The mix of Prime (Amazon) on Tuesday, DAZN on Wednesday and ZDF on free (match summaries) is 'so much cooler and better' than Sky's expensive offer. I think it was also a taken into account by UEFA, because it will be simpler and cheaper than before (to watch the Champions League)," said Ralf Kleber, managing director for Germany of the American e-commerce site Amazon, to the German daily Frankfurter on 12/20/2019.

The broadcasting rights to the Champions League, in Germany, for the 2021-2024 cycle, were acquired by Amazon (best Tuesday fixture), the OTT platform DAZN (best Wednesday fixture and all other games) and the public group ZDF (match summaries and the final in free-to-air) on 12/12/2019. The pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland, which shares the rights to the Champions League in the current cycle (2018-2021) with DAZN and which has broadcast the competition in Germany since 2000, has not won any lot of this tender. With the exception of the final, the competition will therefore be broadcast in full in Germany by OTT operators (DAZN, and the Vod platform Amazon Prime Video)…