Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 14-02-2018, 09:26   #7898
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 View Post
The streaming services want Sports rights but don't want to be breaking the bank to acquire them especially when they are only available on a country by country basis.
I know. It will be interesting to see if the whole structure of the bidding arrangements is changed next time to recognise that, given that they appear to want the streaming services on board.

Perhaps the lack of bids from these companies this time was a deliberate strategy by them to force the Premier League to revisit these arrangements.

With the BBC acknowledging that existing broadcast channels will no longer exist in favour of internet only content within the next couple of decades (see linear thread), I can see why the EPL would want to attract the likes of Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Google, Twitter etc at this stage.
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