German marketers of RTL and Pro7Sat1 searched

 The German Cartel Office suspects anti-competitive collusion between Pro7Sat1 and RTL. As reported by the news agency SDA, the German Cartel Office has had the subsidiaries of RTL and Pro7Sat1 responsible for marketing searched. The reason for this is the suspicion of illegal agreements between the companies under competition law. The Cartel Office suspects that Sevenonemedia and the marketing company IP, which belongs to RTL, granted their customers such high discounts that smaller providers were no longer able to compete. The Cartel Office estimates the combined market share of IP and Sevenonemedia at 80 percent.