diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/tagesschau.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/tagesschau.py
index ffcf1c8c48..bd935063f3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/tagesschau.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/tagesschau.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import re
-import json
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor