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Old 10-12-2019, 09:52   #6990
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Well, yes. The obvious question of the return on investment of over £5bn.

We don't know how many households would take a Premiership only subscription - while it's obvious the most popular sport it's impossible to say that X million Sky Sports subscribers = X million Amazon subscribers. How far short they fall is the great unknown.

Sky can bid on the basis that on day 1 of the three year window the subscribers are in the bag to turn a profit. They also know how many subscribers are likely to subscribe over the summer as well.

Amazon and others cannot know this with certainty. As you are always quick to point out streaming offers flexibility to subscribe / unsubscribe In a way Sky isn't.

"If Sky can do it anyone can" is one of the worst interpretations going. Why didn't Setanta, ESPN, NTL, Telewest, ITV Digital?
You are trying to take us for fools if you are denying that the money will follow the football. I am sure the advice Amazon gets from its experts will enable them to assess whether it will be worthwhile to make a bid for the Premiership football, and it is pretty clear to me that this advice will lead them to go for it. You have not explained exactly why this would not work for Amazon even though it works for Sky and BT. Given that you are one of the 'nothing will ever change' brigade, you will only begrudgingly start to believe it when it hits you in the face.

You are entitled to your view, but you will be proved wrong. Sooner or later, Amazon will get in there, and my guess is that this will come about in the 2022 bidding process.

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Originally Posted by denphone View Post
My statements might not make any sense compared to others but l and others are still waiting for your answer on why Amazon up to now in their own country have never looked to capture key US Sporting rights and when you have worked that one out then you might actually work the other one out.
Well, maybe the broadband infrastructure in the US does not make this a viable project just now - I don't know. But frankly, it's irrelevant. The fact that Amazon bothered to go for these bucket shop rights, with all the energy they had to expend on making this work for just five days in December must prove that the determination is there if the experience proves successful.

Anyway, we will soon see, just three years to find out.
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