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[aussiedude]

 

[exe ex machina]

 

[aussiedude]

Since Ourand is reporting the talks are back on since falling apart last summer I'm inclined to believe it. He was the one who broke it over a year ago and that it would have ESPN giving the NFL a stake in the company.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Redzone back on ESPN would be heaven

 

[aussiedude]

Redzone back on ESPN would be heaven

It might not be included internationally because of contracts with CUNZ and stuff anyway.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

French football governing body takes legal action against DAZN over payment for Ligue 1 rights

DAZN has made it clear it either wants to renegotiate a much lower annual fee or activate the break-clause in its deal with LFP.

www.nytimes.com

In a move that appears to have surprised many in the French game, DAZN has only sent half of a €70m (£58m) instalment payment that is due this week to LFP, putting the rest into an escrow account. It has done this because it claims the league has not done enough to help tackle digital piracy in France, while it is also upset that some clubs have not helped DAZN shoulder content for its Ligue 1 platform or with efforts to promote its service.

DAZN is yet to comment but its decision to bring this matter to a head earlier than expected comes only two weeks after it reported a £1.2billion loss for 2023, a result that meant Anglo-Russian businessman Len Blavatnik, its majority shareholder, had to pump in another £665m into the company, taking his overall investment in DAZN to £5.3bn since its launch in 2007.

 

[AJ_2000]

French football governing body takes legal action against DAZN over payment for Ligue 1 rights

DAZN has made it clear it either wants to renegotiate a much lower annual fee or activate the break-clause in its deal with LFP.

www.nytimes.com

Not shocked that they'd want a redo on the deal with the global talent drain has probably sunk a lot of neutral interest in the league.

But I love that they're claiming the league hasn't done enough on digital piracy

 

[aussiedude]

Not shocked that they'd want a redo on the deal with the global talent drain has probably sunk a lot of neutral interest in the league.

But I love that they're claiming the league hasn't done enough on digital piracy

CUNZ site is enough to turn people to dodgy streams

 

[Jatz]

French football governing body takes legal action against DAZN over payment for Ligue 1 rights

DAZN has made it clear it either wants to renegotiate a much lower annual fee or activate the break-clause in its deal with LFP.

www.nytimes.com

1.2 billion pound loss?!

Stating the obvious here but surely that's not sustainable...even with old mate chipping in, I can't imagine he'll keep dropping $500m to save them each year.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Not shocked that they'd want a redo on the deal with the global talent drain has probably sunk a lot of neutral interest in the league.

But I love that they're claiming the league hasn't done enough on digital piracy

Would love to see them try this with the NFL

 

[rumply]

Bodes well for AFL...

 

[aussiedude]

1.2 billion pound loss?!

Stating the obvious here but surely that's not sustainable...even with old mate chipping in, I can't imagine he'll keep dropping $500m to save them each year.

Its why CUNZ got into bed with the Saudis and are taking the blood money to buy up sports and pay bad contracts they signed.

Would love to see them try this with the NFL

I think the NFL would be smart enough to have a clause in the contract to avoid this, I think the AFL do.
But would love to see the NFL get out of this deal

 

[rumply]

If CUNZ isn't a money laundering scam, I'll go he.

 

[Toadvine]

Wasn't sure where to put this.



It will be strange watching redzone without him. He's a great announcer so I hope he gets a decent gig calling actual games for a network.

 

[aussiedude]

Wasn't sure where to put this.



It will be strange watching redzone without him. He's a great announcer so I hope he gets a decent gig calling actual games for a network.

If its NBC its not new. he is in talks to host "gold zone" for the olympics next year. but NBC also want him for NFL studio stuff if the NFL network deal doesnt get done, but i think thats being stalled because NFL and ESPN are talking about selling again.

He was a sideline reporter for NFLN Thursday games like 15 years ago

 

[Toadvine]

If its NBC its not new. he is in talks to host "gold zone" for the olympics next year. but NBC also want him for NFL studio stuff if the NFL network deal doesnt get done, but i think thats being stalled because NFL and ESPN are talking about selling again.

He was a sideline reporter for NFLN Thursday games like 15 years ago

He did the halftime show for the Netflix games this year as well and was really good I thought.

 

[GreyCrow]

Disney announced on Tuesday that ESPN's slate of Australian and international sports programmes – including live local and US basketball and American football, as well as their continuous 24/7 channels – will soon be available on all Disney+ plans.

Be interesting to see how it plays out

 

[rumply]

Disney announced on Tuesday that ESPN's slate of Australian and international sports programmes – including live local and US basketball and American football, as well as their continuous 24/7 channels – will soon be available on all Disney+ plans.

Be interesting to see how it plays out

That is interesting esp if they do their own advertising so viewers dont have to suffer through ESPN's repetitive nonsense.

 

[GreyCrow]

That is interesting esp if they do their own advertising so viewers dont have to suffer through ESPN's repetitive nonsense.

And now I have to decide if Kayo is worth it

It seems its only AFL left on Kayo for me

 

[aussiedude]

That is interesting esp if they do their own advertising so viewers dont have to suffer through ESPN's repetitive nonsense.

They wont. would cost too much money just to do it. If anything it might be the "this event is in a commercial break" page.

 

[rumply]

They wont. would cost too much money just to do it. If anything it might be the "this event is in a commercial break" page.

Could just do promos for their other content as they already have trailers etc, anything would be an improvement.

 

[aussiedude]

Could just do promos for their other content as they already have trailers etc, anything would be an improvement.

that would cost too much money, need to run 2 streams/sets of ads and have the right timing and return to play.

and it would reduce the cost of the current ad rate. no doubt they would do that with pre-roll ads for on demand sport.

Thats all assuming Disney and Foxtel workout a new deal because the current on expires at the end of June.

 

[Brasher]

That is interesting esp if they do their own advertising so viewers dont have to suffer through ESPN's repetitive nonsense.

The way Disney is going I'm not sure anything they advertise will be an upgrade.

 

[Toadvine]

 

[aussiedude]

I dont see how that would work. do netflix even have a way to lock streams to zipcodes. not like other countries. otherwise it kills sunday ticket.

Also both CBS and Fox pay $2bn a year for the NFL, a streamer would have to blow that number out of the water. the 2011-22 deal was about half that. so Netflix would likely need to pay $3bn or more. Who knows what the streaming landscape looks like in 5 years when the next TV deals will be worked on since they expire in 8 years. with streamers having to always put the price up how much longer before the bubble pops once every streamer costs $40 a month for less and less content.

 

[Brasher]

I dont see how that would work. do netflix even have a way to lock streams to zipcodes.

They sort of have this tech now they have introduced the subscriber having to designate their home location so as to avoid one subscription being used in multiple homes. So we will see how they further tighten it.

But the real answer to the problem is live content streamers should adopt the operating model of the energy and Telcom industries...that is divorce content creation from distribution. Sort of like how you have one electricity power gen plant that serves the public via a bunch of competing retailers.

The viewer would win because they can shop content and package subscriptions to drive better deals.

Retailers win because they are not replicating infrastructure that doesn't add value and the content creator wins because they can distribute their content seamlessly.

Personally, I'd love nothing better that having a single subscription to one provider that I can then pick and choose my preferred content.