{"id":5240,"date":"2020-06-21T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:55:08","slug":"germanys-rtl-to-pull-the-plug-on-f1-at-the-end-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s RTL to pull the plug on F1 at the end of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German free-to-air broadcaster RTL will not renew its contract with F1 at the end of the season, departing the sport after a continuous 30-year involvement.<\/p>\n<p>RTL Head of Sport, Manfred Loppe, revealed that financial considerations and a &#8220;changing competitive environment&#8221; were behind the broadcaster&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have competitors in the game who are prepared to offer double as much as you can then you are forced into a position of having to withdraw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have broadcast Formula 1 for over three decades with great love and passion, as well as with a plucky readiness for innovation and investment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;RTL will forever be associated with the most widely viewed, most emotional, unforgotten moments in the top motor racing series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\nF1 restricts grid access, keeps options open on podiums\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formula 1&#8217;s popularity has been inconsistent in Germany in the past few years, with Ferrari&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel failing to deliver a world title and the country&#8217;s race at Hockenheim falling several times off the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>But viewers have also had two choices to follow Grand Prix racing as they could also rely on cable broadcaster Sky.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director of RTL, J\u00f6rg Graf, added: &#8220;Competition for TV rights has changed and the market has in part overheated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As such it has extended beyond our ambitious, but at the same time economically justifiable, limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RTL&#8217;s colorful team of anchors that includes Florian K\u00f6nig, lead commentator Heiko Wasser and pit-lane reporter Kai Ebel will enter next month in Austria their final season of broadcasting in F1.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery: The beautiful wives and girlfriends of F1 drivers<\/p>\n<p><em>Keep up to date with all the F1 news via\u00a0<\/em><em>Facebook<\/em><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><em>Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German free-to-air broadcaster RTL will not renew its contract with F1 at the end of the season, departing the sport after a continuous 30-year involvement. RTL Head of Sport, Manfred Loppe, revealed that financial considerations and a &#8220;changing competitive environment&#8221; were behind the broadcaster&#8217;s exit. &#8220;When you have competitors in the game who are prepared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}