The European Commission unconditionally approved the takeover on April 22, 2026, marking the final regulatory hurdle. RTL Group to acquire Sky Deutschland
After years of speculation, the "quake" finally hit on June 27, 2025, when RTL Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sky Deutschland from Comcast. 2022---Pay-TV-quake--Sky-Germany-could-be-sold
Industry analysts noted that Sky Deutschland was "subscale" compared to its UK sister operation, lacking a telecommunications backbone to bundle with its TV services. This made it a heavy weight on Comcast’s European balance sheet, prompting the search for a buyer—potentially a German company that could merge it to achieve better scale. The Acquisition (June 2025) This made it a heavy weight on Comcast’s
In October 2022, rumors of a seismic shift in the European media landscape began to swirl when reports emerged that Comcast was considering offloading its German pay-TV unit, Sky Deutschland . What began as whispers of a "pay-TV quake" eventually culminated in a transformative deal nearly three years later. The Spark (October 2022) The Spark (October 2022)