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_wige MEDIA AG: Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the _wige MEDIA AG portal

DGAP-News: _wige MEDIA AG / Key word(s): Alliance _wige MEDIA AG: Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the _wige MEDIA AG portal 30.01.2017 / 15:02 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Corporate News , 30 January 2017 _wige MEDIA AG, ISIN: DE000A1EMG56 / WKN: A1EMG5

Green light for sporttotal.tv: strong partners support the _wige MEDIA AG portal

- Allianz Deutschland AG, Deutsche Post AG and Telekom Deutschland, with Microsoft support, on board as founding partners

- Joint pilot phase with the German Football Association (DFB) and the Bavarian Football Association (BFV)

Cologne, 30 January 2017. _wige MEDIA AG has gained support for its new sporttotal.tv amateur sports portal from strong partners and large conglomerates from the German business community: As founding partners, Allianz Deutschland AG, Deutsche Post AG and Telekom Deutschland GmbH will provide support for the company which will in future be streaming sport events with the aid of a special camera technology.

In a joint pilot phase with the German Football Association (DFB) and the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), sporttotal.tv will be broadcasting the second half of the 2017 season games of the North regional league as well as Lower Saxony's top league and the north and south Bavarian leagues by the second half of the 2017 season live and as video on demand. The aim of the partnership is to raise the public profile of amateur football.

sporttotal.tv gmbh is a wholly-owned subsidiary of _wige MEDIA AG. It equips amateur German clubs with special video technology which enables football games to be broadcast live in a high quality and fully automatically on the new "sporttotal.tv" platform. The use of the offering is free of charge, and the portal finances itself through advertising proceeds.

The founding partners contribute their various core competences to the new company: Allianz will provide its expertise as a long standing partner and insurer of sports in Germany. Deutsche Post will support sporttotal.tv as a logistics partner with its unique network and as an organisation unrivalled in its field.