Bundesliga TV rights: "We must not make ourselves dependent on a monopoly" (K-H Rummenigge)

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"We are facing a big problem in Germany: the pay-TV market is dominated by a de facto monopoly," stated Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, referring to the pay-TV group Sky Deutschland, in an interview to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on 17/05/2015.

"There must be new players (TV competitors) into the field. Only competition drives up the price...

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