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Originally Posted by Chad
DAZN are launching with boxing. Boxing is fairly niche. Boxing has had a dedicated boxing channel for 9 years now in Boxnation. At its peak if showed content that not only rivalled Sky but surpassed them at a fraction of the cost. The channel was available on all TV platforms and various streaming devices but sat with an average subscriber base of less than 100,000. Nearly went completely to the wall until Premier Sports bailed them out and took control.
People in this country love watching football, mainly live British football. With the FA Cup becoming completely free to air next year on ITV and the BBC along with the Scottish Cup and Scottish Championship on the BBC and the English and Welsh national teams qualifiers and friendlies live on ITV and S4C respectively households will have access to roughly 70 games of top quality football per year for free. If you like a bit of football that's a bit more exotic Freesports show the Portuguese league, MLS, JLeague, La Liga, Seria A, Danish football and football from Poland.
I can't see DAZN making any impact in the first 24 months if they last that long. It's likely they'll join Setanta, ESPN and Eleven Sports RIP
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Scottish Cup and Championship - hardly what I would consider to be top quality.
Also, a bit of a mis-representation that Serie A and La Liga are in Freesports - yes they are but rarely live, you need to subscribe to Premier Sports for that, the other leagues mentioned are not top quality either.