The Antitrust has fined Tim over 760 thousand euros and DAZN over 7 million: in the crosshairs the exclusive implementation between July-August 2021
The Antitrust has sanctioned Tim e Dazn for the agreement on the TV rights of the Serie A football championship 2021-2024. The Competition and Market Authority announces the conclusion of the investigation relating to some clauses of the agreement between the two companies relating to the broadcasting of Serie A football championship matches in the three-year period 2021-2024. Based on the revenues deriving to the two companies from the marketing of television rights for the 2021-2022 season, the Authority has sanctioned Tim for 760,776.82 euros and Dazn for 7,240,250.84 euros.
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The Antitrust recalls that, for the three-year period 2021-2024, following the tender called by the football league in 2021, the holder of the TV rights is Dazn. According to the Authority, the agreement, which provided for the exclusivity in favor of Tim and the prohibition of partnerships with its competitors in the telecommunications sector, could ”cause harmful effects for the competitive dynamics underway in the telecommunications sector in the services markets of connectivity and the retail sale of pay-television services”.
In fact, by virtue of the agreement, Tim ”has commercialized a non-replicable bundled offer from its competitors, including the contents of Timvision and Dazn and the connectivity service”, explains the Agcm. Furthermore, it was “an offer capable of depriving Tim’s competitors, active in the electronic communications markets, of the possibility of associating particularly valuable contents with their own connectivity services, such as the rights to watch championship matches Serie A for the three-year period 2021-2024, limiting the ability to exert competitive pressure against Tim itself”.
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