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Originally Posted by Raider999
A possible pointer to future EPL rights bidding.
apparently, DAZN are looking to muscle in on the Serie A rights in Italy (currently held by Sky Italia) a the bidding is expected to conclude this week.
DAZN holds the exclusive EPL rights in Canada, Spain and Japan.
2 things interest me, firstly are the Italian rights exclusive in Italy? If so how is that allowed when EU made the EPL become non-exclusives?
Secondly, the article states DAZN is a 'loss-making platform' - does anyone know who owns DAZN?
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Some Russian billionaire and some venture capitalists have been throwing into the money pit that is DAZN to date.
Currently Serie A rights are split between Sky (7) and DAZN (3) matches per week.
In the past, individual home games were sold by clubs (generally to a Silvio Berlusconi owned DTT outfit if I recalled - he also owned AC Milan in addition to his comedy political career) while all games were also carried by a satellite broadcaster. So you had a genuine choice whether to subscribe for them all for buy individual games for most clubs.
The EU remedy ceased to apply from 2013 I think, it just became financially beneficial for the EPL to split the rights.