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Old 13-07-2019, 09:46   #5581
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I still don't get how you think that a streaming service cannot afford to bid for football rights, although Sky and BT can.

As it has been pointed out before, streaming is just another means of delivery. The only obstacle remaining is the extent of fast broadband coverage throughout the UK.

It will be interesting to see the viewing figures for Premiership football on Amazon at the end of the year.
Nobody is saying they can’t “afford” to do it, just questioning if they can develop a business model to support it long term.

Sky/BT are established in the market, it’s hundreds of hours of content for what’s is relatively loose change absorbed across millions of subscribers who are already interested in sports content.

The same challenges would exist for a new entrant third party on Sky, Virgin or online.
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Old 13-07-2019, 12:28   #5582
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The current Amazon packages were not originally sold and are likely to have been attained dirt cheap. Therefor not much to lose by giving free viewing.

To win any of the serious packages will involve a much larger investment - if you believe you will get this for nothing dream on (just my opinion of course but time will tell)
I didn't say they would give it away. That would be a bit of a stretch! But they may come up with a better deal for the punters.
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Old 13-07-2019, 12:30   #5583
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I didn't say they would give it away. That would be a bit of a stretch! But they may come up with a better deal for the punters.
There’s the small matter to of the £4.5bn.
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Nobody is saying they can’t “afford” to do it, just questioning if they can develop a business model to support it long term.

Sky/BT are established in the market, it’s hundreds of hours of content for what’s is relatively loose change absorbed across millions of subscribers who are already interested in sports content.

The same challenges would exist for a new entrant third party on Sky, Virgin or online.
BT are relative newcomers, but they have managed it. If existing providers are making a profit from showing Premiership football, then so can Amazon.

Clearly, if football subscribers to Sky Sports and/or BT Sport no longer find their matches broadcast there, they will migrate to whichever company then delivers the service. That's pretty obvious to me.

There is no secret magical formula that makes Premiership football work for existing broadcasters screening the sport but not for others.

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There’s the small matter to of the £4.5bn.
There are different ways Amazon could decide to play this. For example, it is quite possible that Amazon may make this a loss leader and charge less than is required to make a profit to draw more people into the Prime service. They may decide to top up their income from selling the rights to certain matches to the terrestrials.

My point is that Amazon could make this work and it is crazy to believe that only Sky or BT can pull this off. There is absolutely no reason to believe such a thing.
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Old 13-07-2019, 12:54   #5585
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No shareholders worth their salt are going to sign off on a £4.5bn loss leader in a single market of 27 million homes.

There’s actually a very good reason to believe Amazon couldn’t pull it off it’s that they didn’t make any meaningful bids for any of the packages last time round.

Selling to the terrestrials is a non-runner. Be lucky to get a couple of million per game for it.
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I do think the big sports aka Premier league etc will remain on PTV linear but say for example smaller sports such as La liga could end up on a streaming platform such as Amazon.
This is one of the big things we're all waiting to find out about, but the fact that Amazon has dipped its toes into Premier League and the fact that many of the PL teams are recognised globally, would seem a perfect fit for a global streamer.

If Amazon, Apple, Google etc decide to get involved in premium sports in a big way, they will blast away all existing pay tv companies, literally, as sports is one of the main linchpins of pay tv.

TBD - to be decided.

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No shareholders worth their salt are going to sign off on a £4.5bn loss leader in a single market of 27 million homes.

There’s actually a very good reason to believe Amazon couldn’t pull it off it’s that they didn’t make any meaningful bids for any of the packages last time round.
They had almost know "original" content of their own then, so it wouldn't have made much sense and why the single market?? Lots of markets on the globe.
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No shareholders worth their salt are going to sign off on a £4.5bn loss leader in a single market of 27 million homes.

There’s actually a very good reason to believe Amazon couldn’t pull it off it’s that they didn’t make any meaningful bids for any of the packages last time round.

Selling to the terrestrials is a non-runner. Be lucky to get a couple of million per game for it.
What are you on? I never said they would give it away for free, did I? But they may make it cheaper to subscribe, which of course will attract more subscribers. Nor did I suggest that they would allow the terrestrials to screen all the matches - of course they won't. They will want to ensure that as many people as possible take out a football subscription with them. But that doesn't mean they need to hog it all for themselves. They might do a deal with YouTube, for example, to show highlights - there are all sorts of things they could do to make more money from the Premiership rights.

It remains to be seen whether Amazon would aim to make a direct profit, break even or make a loss from such a venture, but if they went for a loss, it would be with the aim of increasing their overall profit across the business.

Not having made a serious bid last time around doesn't mean to say they won't do so next time.
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There are a lot of markets indeed, I think it’s quite arrogant to assume Amazon would seek to use England and it’s relatively expensive football rights as a test bed for this.

There’s other European countries with on average faster broadband, and cheaper football rights.
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Old 13-07-2019, 13:37   #5589
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There’s the small matter to of the £4.5bn.
I can assure you Amazon could afford that no problem if and it's a big if they went for more Premier league rights.
£4.5billion is what Amazon make in 6 months.
Another potential one to watch out for is Facebook with the launch of Facebook video they may and again it's a big may want to piece of the football pie.
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I can assure you Amazon could afford that no problem if and it's a big if they went for more Premier league rights.
£4.5billion is what Amazon make in 6 months.
Another potential one to watch out for is Facebook with the launch of Facebook video they may and again it's a big may want to piece of the football pie.
Ah another poster who confuses having money and having a business model to get a return on investment. They’re not a charity, nor do they engage in philanthropy.

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What are you on? I never said they would give it away for free, did I? But they may make it cheaper to subscribe, which of course will attract more subscribers. Nor did I suggest that they would allow the terrestrials to screen all the matches - of course they won't. They will want to ensure that as many people as possible take out a football subscription with them. But that doesn't mean they need to hog it all for themselves. They might do a deal with YouTube, for example, to show highlights - there are all sorts of things they could do to make more money from the Premiership rights.

It remains to be seen whether Amazon would aim to make a direct profit, break even or make a loss from such a venture, but if they went for a loss, it would be with the aim of increasing their overall profit across the business.

Not having made a serious bid last time around doesn't mean to say they won't do so next time.
It was only last year. There’s a lot of speculation and “it remains to be seen” but no real insight on offer as to how they turn £4.5bn burning a hole in their pocket into £6bn+.
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Ah another poster who confuses having money and having a business model to get a return on investment. They’re not a charity, nor do they engage in philanthropy.

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It was only last year. There’s a lot of speculation and “it remains to be seen” but no real insight on offer as to how they turn £4.5bn burning a hole in their pocket into £6bn+.
What precisely is it about their business model that prevents them from bidding for the football rights? You seem to have a very blinkered approach to this. Obviously, Amazon exists to make a profit, but how precisely they achieve that objective isn't as black and white as you seem to think.

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It was only last year. There’s a lot of speculation and “it remains to be seen” but no real insight on offer as to how they turn £4.5bn burning a hole in their pocket into £6bn+.
Well, according to your rigid view of commerce and economics, Netflix shouldn't exist with all these 'originals' it is putting out. And yet...it does. It will be many years before they turn a profit, and similarly Amazon will not be concerned with the very short term implications of investing in UK sport.
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What prevents them bidding is no plan for a return on investment. How many times do I have to repeat it? They know it themselves (hence no meaningful bids and Sky getting more for less than in the previous auction).
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What prevents them bidding is no plan for a return on investment. How many times do I have to repeat it? They know it themselves (hence no meaningful bids and Sky getting more for less than in the previous auction).
You can repeat it ad nauseum but l somehow doubt it would change his intransigent stance on it.
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There are a lot of markets indeed, I think it’s quite arrogant to assume Amazon would seek to use England and it’s relatively expensive football rights as a test bed for this.

There’s other European countries with on average faster broadband, and cheaper football rights.
I'm sure we went over all this last month or so, but if Amazon "do" premier league properly, it would be on a global basis, their streamer is global, it wouldn't be limited to one country all the time.
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I'm sure we went over all this last month or so, but if Amazon "do" premier league properly, it would be on a global basis, their streamer is global, it wouldn't be limited to one country all the time.
True, but there's another £1bn, and you're not selling 'must have' content to the rest of the world. You're selling the equivalent of La Liga to us.
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