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Originally Posted by Horizon
Let me throw a scenario at you....
In ten years time Amazon has all the tv/streaming rights to not only the majority of the games of the Premier League but also the Italian, French, German, American NFL, NBA and baseball matches too.
Do you really think if these games are streamed live, that sports fans will not watch these games via Amazon's service?
A tv channel is only a means of watching tv shows, sports, news etc. It's not the sport, drama, news itself only a means to "deliver" it.
What would Netflix's (rather shaky) subscriber numbers look like today if they had global rights to new episodes of Game of Thrones?
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I think you make some good points there Horizon. In essence, content is king though brands eg BBC, Channel 4 have a lot of pull too.
The current pay-TV sports business models favour Sky Sports and BT Sport but elsewhere different models may surface. In Germany, Perform Group has launched an OTT service called DAZN (which translates as all sports, one platform). It will offer web-video rights of the Bundesliga, other European football, US sports like NBA and NFL, tennis, handball, ice-hockey, darts and other sports live and on-demand for a monthly fee. It will be available via smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, PCs, laptops and games consoles. The service will be offered in HD quality with Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 surround sound. Selected content will be provided in Ultra HD/4K.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...ce-in-germany/
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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Good point. I think it's really easy to consider the viewing habits of ourselves and immediate people around us and think that's representative of the country as a whole. The report shows that this is a mistake. I'm surprised by the 88% figure but I guess live sports account for a lot of viewing.