[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Seems a lot of supposition and rhetoric flying about based on the word "possibly"…

You’d only complain if I said it will happen.



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Originally Posted by jfman

Yet in doing so they’d also resign themselves to the fact that their existing streaming business couldn’t develop a business case to bid for the rights (against BT, Sky and possibly others).

They won’t offer a linear channel “in all probability”. They would certainly do so because that’s what makes buying BT Sport more attractive than bidding for the rights themselves - the existing contracts and customer base.

No, they would offer the ‘linear’ broadcast channel due to the current level of broadband penetration. That makes absolute sense.

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Originally Posted by jfman

While OB relies heavily on the word possibly and twists DAZN’s potential to invest billions in a linear television let’s consider other news articles that have happened recently.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...his-month.html

Sky to launch an IPTV service.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...duct-soon.html

Virgin to launch an IPTV service.

Glorious hybrids of linear and on demand being made available to millions more homes and a very welcome development.

It’s transitional, jfman. That’s because it’s only 2021.

Oh, and it costs billions to invest in a linear broadcast channel now, does it? Not long ago, you said it cost buttons to do so. I really hadn’t appreciated inflation was that out of control.