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Sky-ITV, RTL-Sky Deutschland, and MFE’s cross-border rollup mark a consolidation wave as linear viewing craters and production costs rise. Scale is now the only defense against Netflix, YouTube and Amazon’s global reach and balance sheets.
RTL’s streaming revenue jumped 27.2% as traditional TV ads and Fremantle production fell. The Sky Deutschland merger makes RTL+ Germany’s third-largest streamer, part of a wider European broadcast consolidation wave.