vadimivich
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German clubs make dick from TV
The German language market globally just isn't very large - and they have a ludicrously cheap domestic TV deal, mostly because "pay TV" (i.e - what we call cable or sattelite) in Germany just isn't really a thing. Germans are pretty cheap in terms of paying for in home entertainment, and there's less than 4m Sky Deutschland subscribers in the entire country. That isn't enough to fund a huge TV deal for the Bundesliga, and they don't have a large diaspora of German speaking countries to sell rights to (Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg -- basically).