2023-05-16 15:07:24
Watch Swiss Champions League games for free instead of on pay TV
The TV offerings Teleboy and Zattoo record significantly more viewers for Champions League games on Italian private channels. That should also be the case in today’s semi-final between the Milan clubs.
Duel for a place in the final: Inter Milan’s Nicolo Barella and AC Milan’s Theo Hernandez fight for the ball.
Photo: Marco Bertorello (AFP)
It’s finally getting into the decisive phase – the last games of the Champions League are coming up. If you want to watch the games, you really only have one option in Switzerland, because the promise of the Swisscom offer Blue TV is clear: “All games from the playoffs to the final, the knockout phase exclusively on Blue Sport.”
But that’s not entirely true. Individual games can be watched on free-to-air TV stations. If not in German, but in Italian.
The game between Inter and AC Milan will be shown again on Canale 5 on Tuesday evening. The Italian broadcaster belongs to the Mediaset broadcasting group, which was founded by Silvio Berlusconi. Experts and rows of former football cracks provide expert commentary on the games – sometimes there are so many old stars standing next to the pitch that not everyone gets a chance to speak.
The channel can be found both in the Swisscom Blue TV offer and in the TV apps from Zattoo, Teleboy or Yallo TV, which can be used free of charge after watching commercials.
Apparently, word has gotten around among the German-speaking Swiss audience that this is the case. “We see clear upswings,” says Michael Wendt, Marketing Manager at Teleboy.
Huge interest in the Manchester vs Madrid game
Canale 5 has been showing Champions League matches throughout the year, each time there has been more interest in the canal. But the volume has never been as big as last week. In the semi-final first leg between Real Madrid and Manchester City, which was also broadcast by Canale 5, Teleboy recorded a particularly clear swing. “Roughly speaking, we are seeing a four- to five-digit growth in calls,” says Wendt. The volume is still rather low compared to other stations.
Teleboy sees similar rashes, but at a lower level, on the Italian broadcaster TV8. This also shows matches from the Champions League. Most recently, the semifinals of the two Italian clubs AC and Inter Milan last Wednesday.
It sounds similar with Zattoo: “In the games on May 9th on Canale 5 and on May 10th on TV8, we recorded around ten times as many users as usual at the same time on the respective channels.” With Yallo TV it is even 15 times as much.
Blue TV just raised the prices
This is also piquant because Blue TV only recently announced a significant price increase for the sports offering, which includes the Champions League. This will take effect from June 21st. The monthly subscription for previously CHF 29.90 now costs CHF 34.90. The minimum contract period has been increased to six months, and it is no longer possible to purchase individual games. This is also likely to be related to the steadily increasing costs of broadcasting rights for the Champions League, which are said to amount to a double-digit million amount for Switzerland alone.
It was not possible to find out whether Blue TV was bothered by the fact that football fans could save themselves the expensive subscription, at least for these games. A short-term media inquiry about this went unanswered by Swisscom.
In any case, football fans don’t have to switch to Italian channels to watch the final. This will be broadcast by 3+ on June 10th.
Except they miss the numerous Italian experts to which they have become accustomed in recent months.
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