RTL's Sky Deal Signals "Get Big or Get Out" Strategy for Europe's TV Giants

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Sky and Cosmos: In its proposed acquisition of Sky Germany, RTL would also acquire the pay-TV channels 13th Street, Syfy and Universal TV from NBC Universal, confirming a speaker to the DWDL. NBC and Sky had merged globally in 2018, which meant an integration of NBC Universal into the Sky structures in Germany. dwdl.de

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RTL Group has officially announced that it has signed a final agreement to acquire Sky Deutschland in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This historic transaction, the most important for RTL Group since its creation in 2000, brings together two of the most recognized media brands in the German-speaking region and creates a future-ready entertainment company with approximately 11.5 million paying subscribers spread over RTL+, Sky an…

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1. RTL swallows Sky Deutschland (verdi.de, Günter Herkel) Günter Herkel comments on RTL's attempt to take over the pay-TV channel Sky Deutschland and thus become number three in the German-speaking streaming market, behind Netflix and Amazon. The merger is intended to help RTL compete with US platforms, but still requires approval from the EU Commission. Herkel critically notes that RTL's parent company, Bertelsmann, had already sacrificed journ…

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At the end of 2023, the US advertising company Omnicom acquired Flywheel, a service provider specialising in e-commerce and retail media, for 835 million US dollars. Now the agency group is also bringing the offer to the German market.