BILD TV to Broadcast Handball Bundesliga Matches and Launch Sports Talk Show

BILD TV to Broadcast Handball Bundesliga Matches and Launch Sports Talk Show

(IN BRIEF) BILD TV, in collaboration with Dyn, will broadcast selected top matches of the Handball Bundesliga live on free TV starting from August 27, 2023. The initiative aims to expand the sports content beyond soccer and will also feature a new sports talk show called “HALLEluja!” hosted by Valentina Maceri and Carli Underberg. The show will cover various sports except soccer and will especially focus on the Handball top match of the day. The collaboration with Dyn will allow BILD TV to present a diverse range of sports, including basketball, on Sundays. The expansion of the sports lineup aims to provide an exciting experience for sports fans.

(PRESS RELEASE) BERLIN, 2-Sep-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — In cooperation with Dyn, BILD TV will show one selected top match of the Handball Bundesliga live on free TV on every matchday from August 27, 2023. The kickoff will be the match between German champion THW Kiel and rising star HBW Balingen-Weilstetten. On every weekend’s matchday, the previews by Dyn are shown on BILD TV from 2:30 p.m. each Sunday, followed by a top match at 3 p.m.

The Handball Bundesliga will be accompanied by the new talkshow “HALLEluja!” every Sunday on BILD TV, starting at 1:30 p.m. on August 13 and covering all sports except for soccer. Especially the Handball top match of the day will be a main topic for the hosts Valentina Maceri and Carli Underberg. The live sports program on Sundays will be successively expanded: Starting October 1, BILD TV will additionally show one top game of the Basketball Bundesliga every week.

Valentina Maceri and Carli Underberg have been hosting sports shows on BILD TV since 2021, but up until now the program has only featured soccer. For Valentina Maceri, a former professional soccer player, this sport is a special passion, but she is looking forward to present even more sports on BILD TV: “With ‘HALLEluja!’ and the Handball Bundesliga, we will expand our Super Sundays on BILD TV even further and show how diverse, exciting and emotional indoor sports can be.”

The hosts are very excited about the launch of the Handball Bundesliga and the Super Sonntag on BILD TV: “The cooperation with Dyn allows us to perfectly complement our soccer-packed forenoons with the Handball Bundesliga and will turn the Sunday on BILD TV into the perfect overall experience for every sports fan,” says Carli Underberg, Vice Editor-in-Chief Sports of BILD Group and WELT Group, explaining the expansion of the sport line-up.

An overview of the first top matches of the Handball Bundesliga on BILD TV: 

• The German champion THW Kiel will start the new season on matchday 1 with a match against rising star HBW Balingen-Weilstetten (Sunday, August 27, 3 p.m.).
• On matchday 2, SC Magdeburg will face its championship rival SG Flensburg-Handewitt at 3 p.m. (Sunday, Sept. 3, 3 p.m.).
• Magdeburg, winner of the Champions League, will be up against European League champion Füchse Berlin on matchday 3 (Wednesday, September 6, 8:30 p.m.).
• On matchday 4, there will be some extra tension: THW Kiel will be playing a hometown game against MT Melsungen, a team that has once again significantly upgraded (Sunday, September 10, 3 p.m.).
• matchday 5 features a competition between the U21 World Champions: Füchse Berlin, with top talents such the World Cup MVP Nils Lichtlein and Tim Freihöfer, will face previous-season sixth-placed TSV Hannover-Burgdorf, which comes with the World Cup captain Renars Uscins and the all-star circle runner Justus Fischer (Sunday, September 17, 3 p.m.).

BILD TV is available via cable, satellite (Astra) and IPTV and can be enjoyed by around 90 percent of German TV households. The Sunday sports program on BILD TV will reach a market share of up to 1.0 percent in 2023 (ZG 14-49).

Media Contact:

Martha Reifers
Senior Communications Manager
BILD Group
martha.reifers@axelspringer.com

SOURCE: Axel Springer SE