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Berlin (dpa) - The audience is missing - and thus the most important source of income.
In handball, basketball and ice hockey, however, the income from TV contracts hardly helps to survive.
Unlike the 36 clubs in the two national soccer leagues, which continue to share more than a billion euros per season.
“These are sums that cannot be compared at all with football,” said Frank Bohmann, managing director of HBL.
The example of Arminia Bielefeld shows how big the gap is between football and other team sports.
According to "Kicker", the last one with the TV revenues of the Bundesliga collects 34.31 million euros in the current season.
That is more than twice as much as HBL, BBL and DEL take together.
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The German Ice Hockey League receives an estimated 4.5 million euros per season from Telekom, which has been a media partner since 2016 and has a contract until 2024.
All 14 clubs get the same thing: around 300,000 euros.
Nevertheless, DEL managing director Gernot Tripcke said when the contract was extended: "The cooperation with Telekom has been a great success for DEL from the start."
The size of the basketball league is similar, which is also shown by Telekom on the paid online service MagentaSport.
According to information from the specialist magazine “BIG”, the contract, which is valid until 2023, brings a little more than four million euros per season.
Each club receives around 250,000 euros.
The handball Bundesliga has a contract with Sky and ARD that runs until 2023.
An estimated 170,000 euros of TV money will be distributed per club.
Bohmann did not confirm the amount, but the managing director said: “Every club in the Bundesliga receives the same.
The first in the table gets just as much as the last in the table. "
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While the Bundesliga clubs recently fought bitterly over the distribution of the TV billions and the DFL Presidium worked out a complicated distribution key after a tough struggle, the BBL and DEL clubs each received the same share.
However, the HBL managing director speculates: "If we had income like in football, that would certainly lead to completely different discussions here."
Handball, basketball and ice hockey collect less money because fewer fans are willing to take out pay subscriptions.
And because fewer people watch free TV.
The eleven Sport1 broadcasts of the past DEL season had an average of 120,000 viewers last year.
According to Sport1, the average for the 15 BBL games was almost 100,000 spectators.
The top handball value for the pay TV broadcaster Sky was a conference with 130,000 spectators.
And on free TV?
Just 156,000 fans tuned in to MDR at the end of November to see the game between Leipzig and Magdeburg.
The Bundesliga only finds significantly more viewers when handball is on in the main program: Rhein Neckar Löwen versus TBV Lemgo saw 1.618 million people in the first.
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