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Old 16-07-2019, 20:23   #5656
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Not to bang on about it but where do they make the money back if they “blow Sky out the water”? To achieve all this, on a global level of course, they’d need to buy the Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, all the North American sports and every other major sports event in every country in the world!

Tens (hundreds?) of billions per year just to enter an already crowded market and for what kind of profit margin? Any profit margin at all?

Liberty Global looks a snip at $20bn by comparison - and has access to most of the major sports rights anyway via third parties. Give everyone free Prime if they take all three services. The risk remains with the primary rights holder.
As Sky is already making a profit, it is difficult to understand why you think that Amazon can't do the same. I think this is just your mindset and no argument will ever shift you from it accept 'oh, look what just happened!').

You seem to have ignored the fact that the Premiership football matches are mighty popular in some other parts of the world (eg India),as is cricket. There is definitely a global sports market to be tapped into here, which you don't seem to appreciate.

Take off your blinkers, jfman, and just look at the opportunities out there. Look at the bigger picture and you will see further than the end of your nose, which is not that interesting really. Although I suppose a really big nose is hard to ignore. Do you have a big nose?

If so, sorry, no offense.

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