UFC banned from German television
According to TVMatrix.de, the UFC has been removed from German airwaves. the TV portal TVmatrix reported today that the Bavarian…
According to TVMatrix.de, the UFC has been removed from German airwaves.
the TV portal TVmatrix reported today that the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) on Thursday made the decision to the prohibit the broadcast of the UFC shows”The Ultimate Fighter,” UFC Unleashed ” and “UFC Fight Night..”
The BLM cited the “unnaceptable massiveness of the violence displayed” and that “standing taboos” like hitting a prone opponent on the ground is in contradiction with the vision of the Bayerische Rundfunk Constitution.
Marshall Zelaznik, managing director of international development at the UFC, rssponded to the BLM’s abrupt decision to remove UFC from German television.
“We have been monitoring this development together with our partner DSF for a couple of weeks. Although we are not surprised by the decision, we consider it unusual to take action without listening to the concerning parties first.
The Bavarian state office for new media has approved UFC programming on DSF twice on separate occasions in the past. That is why we deem the sudden ban unusual as the content of our programming has not changed. We have also had a commission for youth protection in the media review the situation and they deemed the broadcast legal if televised after 11 p.m.
