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Football, TV rights: Sky appeals to the Antitrust. Tim: “Amazed”

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The clash over the TV rights of football is back on. Sky has in fact formalized the decision to lodge an appeal with the Antitrust against the exclusivity at the center of the agreement between Tim and Dazn with the broadcast of Serie A matches at the center, a partnership whose details are unknown but which will bring the Ott app on the telco platform led by CEO Gubitosi.

Sky’s appeal

An appeal that led to a question and answer between the two companies. “Sky turned to the Antitrust to be sure that millions of consumers and football fans can continue to subscribe to Serie A through a plurality of broadband providers and watch it on the platform they prefer – satellite, Dtt or Ott – just like today” Comcast pay-TV explained in a statement.

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Sky also speaks of an “illegitimate exclusive agreement” between Tim and Dazn, with the latter having won the TV rights of Serie A in the next three years for 840 million euros per season. A partnership which, according to the broadcaster, “precludes OTT from distributing the championship through other operators, thus favoring Tim and strengthening its dominant position in the broadband market”.

Tim’s reply: be amazed

The reply from Tim herself was not long in coming. “Tim is amazed by Sky’s concerns about competition and the free choice of customers, after the Agcm has repeatedly ascertained that Sky is a dominant player in the pay TV sector, holding a market share of around 80%” , the answer arrived in the evening. Furthermore, Tim “will continue to distribute sports content, as it is currently doing with Now (Sky), Eurosport (Discovery) and Dazn content and with any other publisher interested in enhancing content through the TimVision platform”.

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The other operators

Press release which was followed by a new response from Sky: “Sky acknowledges that Tim has confirmed his intention to restrict consumer choice to a single platform”. But the clash has also spread from other operators, from WindTre (“technological plurality must be guaranteed”) to Open Fiber (“everyone must be guaranteed the possibility of seeing the games on their reference operator”), waiting for the Antitrust comment on the exclusivity of the agreement between Tim and Dazn.

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