Friday, February 4, 2011

Opinion | "time": A pub could cost millions Bundesliga

Drink a beer more quiet when you visit the next time your sports bar. The hosts need revenue, including pay-TV requires not just a little that can be seen at the bar live football. And until the next season it could be cheaper. At least according to the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, Juliane Kokott, goes.

The hit on the side of a British pubs owner, issued by a final request of the Country filter of television rights, a clear rejection. For experts pointing to the next six months, the expected verdict. The bars owner from Portsmouth had worried decoder including pay-TV subscription from Greece, because you BSkyB was too expensive - and a saving 90 percent of the cost of service.

Only the Premier League complained against. "If I want to buy a car, I can go to any retailer in Europe. Will I watch football, I can only Sky-dealer, and must pay ten times more than anyone else there (in Europe). That is not fair, "argues the landlady. Followed by the ECJ in the legal fight is now the pub, the value of the foreign rights of the Premier League would (a total of 952 million euros in 2010), but also break the Bundesliga (42 million).

More, the TV rights market would be shaken to its foundations as once the football through the Bosman ruling. Today, with unpredictable consequences: You might therefore prefer to drink less beer. Could be that pub-TV (after a short transition phase) is even more expensive. And then even without a German comment.

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