Thread: General ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Old 19-05-2021, 19:49   #10495
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by Raider999 View Post
I think it is more of a case that streamers don't see the value in bidding high for the PL rights.

If they did then surely they would have done so - in which case the rights would have gone to tender this time, irrespective of the civil effect.
This is an oft quoted phrase, and it’s hilarious. Because something hasn’t happened already, it will never happen! What kind of argument is that?

This time last year, would you have said that AT&T would never join with Discovery because it would have happened already?

If the streamers see a benefit in offering the Premier League, they will do so when the time is right. They have the money to do it (more than Sky and BT had combined) and to say they can’t make a profit out of it when Sky and BT can is clearly nonsense.

In the US, Disney offers ESPN as a separate stream. To bring us into line, they may decide to offer the Premiership as one of the UK sport options.

Given that Discovery own Eurosport, who’s to say that after the AT&T merger they would not want to strengthen their sport offering in the UK on Discovery+ and offer the EPL?

And then there’s Amazon, who have been monitoring their smaller EPL rights performance with interest.

Any of these streamers, or even sport only streamers not yet big in the UK like DAZN, could enter the bidding process next time around. It’s just a matter of time before this happens and it’s incredible to see that some members are in complete denial about this.
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