DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:38 am  

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... l-27234442 Quite an interesting article. Note the link with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sports. Potential to stream every game. https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/welcome

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... l-27234442 Quite an interesting article. Note the link with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sports. Potential to stream every game. https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/welcome

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:52 am  

Wires71 wrote: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/dazn-super-leaguebroadcastdeal-27234442 Quite an interesting article. Note the link with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sports. Potential to stream every game. https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/welcome Making the product more expensive for the existing RL fan, while eliminating the casual fan. Nice one.

Wires71 wrote: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/dazn-super-leaguebroadcastdeal-27234442 Quite an interesting article. Note the link with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sports. Potential to stream every game. https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/welcome Making the product more expensive for the existing RL fan, while eliminating the casual fan. Nice one.

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:43 am  

I hope it makes Sky make a bigger offer than last time.

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 10:10 am  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

Making the product more expensive for the existing RL fan, while eliminating the casual fan. Nice one.

May provide some competition to TV rights so that Sky keep the deal reasonable.

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 10:39 am  

Wires71 wrote:

May provide some competition to TV rights so that Sky keep the deal reasonable.

True. More likely though is that they would simply let it go and we become an even more niche sport than we presently are.

Look at the amount of stuff that Sky has let go in recent years. I'd suggest that SL isn't the jewel that some of us might hope or think, so losing us wouldn't be a huge deal for them.

Reality is, Sky know that as long as they retain the Premier league football rights, then they will keep hold of the vast majority of their custom - most other sports that move to more obscure channels seem to shrink, rather than increase, their follower base.

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 12:33 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

True. More likely though is that they would simply let it go and we become an even more niche sport than we presently are.

Look at the amount of stuff that Sky has let go in recent years. I'd suggest that SL isn't the jewel that some of us might hope or think, so losing us wouldn't be a huge deal for them.

Reality is, Sky know that as long as they retain the Premier league football rights, then they will keep hold of the vast majority of their custom - most other sports that move to more obscure channels seem to shrink, rather than increase, their follower base.

That worries me, but Sky no longer have the monopoly on the Premier league. BT, Amazon and I think there is another getting more and more of a share of that. Recently Sky have pumped near on a billion into the Championship for coverage of that. I was and still am hoping that some of the premier league money would filter down to us.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:01 pm  

karetaker wrote:

That worries me, but Sky no longer have the monopoly on the Premier league. BT, Amazon and I think there is another getting more and more of a share of that. Recently Sky have pumped near on a billion into the Championship for coverage of that. I was and still am hoping that some of the premier league money would filter down to us.

If they do and without sounding too misogynistic, they'll be filtering it through plenty of Women's Sports, which is fair if there is an appetite for it.

However, SKY do have an agenda and set that appetite, so as to affect their market which again is fair as it's their money and might represent best value ROI for them. I get that they are a business and not a public service provider so there's a stocking filler level that they'd like to maintain rather than help making us the UK's second biggest sport BUT when/if we are further marginalised by the likes of Women's Basketball from the USA, then that would be hard to take.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:08 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

If they do and without sounding too misogynistic, they'll be filtering it through plenty of Women's Sports, which is fair if there is an appetite for it.

However, SKY do have an agenda and set that appetite, so as to affect their market which again is fair as it's their money and might represent best value ROI for them. I get that they are a business and not a public service provider so there's a stocking filler level that they'd like to maintain rather than help making us the UK's second biggest sport BUT when/if we are further marginalised by the likes of Women's Basketball from the USA, then that would be hard to take.

you not a fan of the WNBA??? shocking.

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:38 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

If they do and without sounding too misogynistic, they'll be filtering it through plenty of Women's Sports, which is fair if there is an appetite for it.

However, SKY do have an agenda and set that appetite, so as to affect their market which again is fair as it's their money and might represent best value ROI for them. I get that they are a business and not a public service provider so there's a stocking filler level that they'd like to maintain rather than help making us the UK's second biggest sport BUT when/if we are further marginalised by the likes of Women's Basketball from the USA, then that would be hard to take.

Spot on, i was always hopeful that with them losing the monopoly on the Premier League that we would get a bit more of the pot. But clearly they gone down a different route as you have pointed out. Not sure if I can say this but I wouldn’t say no to coverage of women’s beach volleyball.

P.S once got battered off the wife for watching that, it didn’t matter when I said it was the olympics

Re: DAZN bid for Super League broadcasting rights : Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:48 pm  

Now you're talking karetaker.