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Originally Posted by denphone
Disney owns ESPN and well where are they now in the British sports rights market?
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That proves nothing, of course, Den.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Can someone do the calculations on how Netflix/Amazon etc return a profit to cover the costs of £1.5bn a year for UK Premiership rights? Until then I’m bored of hearing about it.
Similarly the end of linear TV can someone do calculations for the point it ceases to be effective for a major rights holder (Sky) to cease linear in favour of a 100% streaming solution. Bear in mind bandwidth is so cheap Sky broadcast the movie Groundhog Day fourteen times in succession on February 2nd/3rd and hundreds of channels broadcast to tiny audiences.
Without either of these meaningful calculations it’s baseless speculation.
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Do the calculations? How do you suppose we do that? Even if we had detailed costs to hand of existing operations, whether something is profitable or not depends on your strategy. It would not surprise me if there were loss leading initiatives in the minds of some streaming companies.
Forecasts are always speculation to some extent, but this one is hardly baseless. If you keep a close eye on everything that's happening out there as well as viewing trends, it is pretty obvious how this is all going to pan out.
If you were standing on a railway line, would you remain there if you saw a train in the distance on the basis that it would never hit you because it was too far away? Of course not, and just because sports streaming hasn't yet taken off in the UK doesn't mean that it never will.