Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
RTL 2 Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG; Discovery Communications Deutschland GmbH
BWB/Z-7009
On 21.07.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
RTL 2 Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, and Discovery Communications Deutschland GmbH, Germany, a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., USA, intend to create a joint venture that will only be active in Germany. Both intend to acquire 50% of the shares of the joint venture each and thus joint control.
Economic sector: Marketing and brokerage of advertising time and advertising space.
N - PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES N 73 - Activities of advertising, market research and public relations, N 73.1 - Advertising, N 73.12 - Media representation
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 18.08.2025.
Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.
Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.
Non-prohibition of the merger
The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 19.08.2025 .