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DGAP-News: _wige MEDIA AG: Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the _wige MEDIA AG portal
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_wige MEDIA AG: Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the
_wige MEDIA AG portal
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Corporate News , 30 January 2017
_wige MEDIA AG, ISIN: DE000A1EMG56 / WKN: A1EMG5
Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the _wige MEDIA AG
portal
- Allianz Deutschland AG, Deutsche Post AG and Telekom Deutschland, with
Microsoft support, on board as founding partners
- Joint pilot phase with the German Football Association (DFB) and the
Bavarian Football Association (BFV)
Cologne, 30 January 2017. _wige MEDIA AG has gained support for its new
sporttotal.tv amateur sports portal from strong partners and large
conglomerates from the German business community: As founding partners,
Allianz Deutschland AG, Deutsche Post AG and Telekom Deutschland GmbH will
provide support for the company which will in future be streaming sport
events with the aid of a special camera technology.
In a joint pilot phase with the German Football Association (DFB) and the
Bavarian Football Association (BFV), sporttotal.tv will be broadcasting the
second half of the 2017 season games of the North regional league as well
as Lower Saxony's top league and the north and south Bavarian leagues by
the second half of the 2017 season live and as video on demand. The aim of
the partnership is to raise the public profile of amateur football.
sporttotal.tv gmbh is a wholly-owned subsidiary of _wige MEDIA AG. It
equips amateur German clubs with special video technology which enables
football games to be broadcast live in a high quality and fully
automatically on the new "sporttotal.tv" platform. The use of the offering
is free of charge, and the portal finances itself through advertising
proceeds.
The founding partners contribute their various core competences to the new
company: Allianz will provide its expertise as a long standing partner and
insurer of sports in Germany. Deutsche Post will support sporttotal.tv as a
logistics partner with its unique network and as an organisation unrivalled
in its field.
Telekom Deutschland GmbH will collaborate as a partner for technology and
content and support the project in the areas of assembly, connectivity and
broadcasting, as well as with a central Microsoft Cloud infrastructure
hosted in data centres based in Frankfurt/Main and Magdeburg. Selected live
content and highlights will be made accessible to Entertain customers on
other Deutsche Telekom platforms.
"We are very happy to be able to present such strong partners across the
industry right from the start of the pilot phase and, above all, to know
that they are with us on this. The range of different competences will
hopefully help our start-up to grow quickly to an authoritative size in the
sport media world. Having support from our country's strongest sport
associations is a special honour and a responsibility at the same time - we
have come to know them as open, innovative and extremely dedicated," says
Peter Lauterbach, CEO of _wige MEDIA AG and founder of sporttotal.tv gmbh
"This innovative commitment will enable us to attract greater attention to
local amateur sports in Germany in which many of our customers,
representatives and employees are involved. This serves to underscore our
role as a partner and insurer of sports in Germany," explains Manfred
Boschatzke, head of Brand & Sponsoring at Allianz Deutschland AG: "We are
making a start with amateur football. Going forward, however, many other
types of sport could benefit from the new digital broadcasting."
Thomas Kipp, EVP Strategy & Business Development at Deutsche Post AG:
"Germany's Post stands for broad-based presence and innovation and,
together with the DFB, also for promoting amateur German football. We are
delighted to be able to take another a big step forward here, together with
strong partners. As experts for logistics and communication, we will help
to make sporttotal.tv a success."
Hagen Rickmann, managing director responsible for the business customers of
Telekom Deutschland GmbH: "We are pleased to be an important part of this
exciting and innovative project which, together with our long standing and
strong partners, will allow us to create the basis for sport enthusiasts in
Germany to access exciting sport content free of charge through the
Internet anywhere any time."
The centrepiece of sporttotal.tv is a unique 180 camera technology which
is securely installed on the playing field. The outstanding innovation of
the system consists of its fully automated software which can follow the
game, without a chip in the ball or on the body or shirt of a player.
Spectators can, for instance, use the sporttotal app to direct how they
view a game, determine the perspective and share scenes on social media.
The streaming offering can be accessed via the sporttotal app as well as
through sporttotal.tv, BFV.de and FUSSBALL.DE, the DFB's platform for
amateur football.
About the _wige GROUP
As one of the world's leading marketing and production companies in motor
sport as well as in other areas of sport in Germany, the _wige GROUP
produces the Formula1 races, the DTM German Touring Car Masters series, the
Handball Champions League, the ADAC Zurich 24-hour Race at the Nürburgring
and German Football League games, as well as organising events and content
for prestigious companies such as Porsche, Audi, Mercedes/AMG, Red Bull,
VW, and Deutsche Post AG.
Company contact:
_wige MEDIA AG
Am Coloneum 2
50829 Cologne
Germany
www.wige.de
phone: +49 (0)221_7 88 77_ 0
fax: +49 (0)221_7 88 77_ 199
[email protected]
Investor Relations
BSK Becker+Schreiner Kommunikation GmbH
Tobias M. Weitzel
phone: +49 (0) 177_7 21 57 60
[email protected]
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