Tag: Media Rights

"Expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams will give more programs a chance to compete for a national championship. But the sport is missing a golden opportunity to expand something else just as important: the voices bringing those games to life."

"With 135 million households able to watch broadcast TV, I’d say it’s working really well. So far, the hypothesis that we need different networks doesn’t seem to prove itself, at least as it relates to us."

"Despite a 2% drop in viewership from year one to year two, the multi-year agreement was reached with hopes for a rebound in year three."

"Right now I'd say, we're a nice to have sport. When you look at networks and everything, not a must have."

"Deng spent more than 11 years at the NFL, most recently leading corporate strategy."

"I believe these changes put us in a much better position to compete with all of the alternatives that any media partner has for their programming dollars."

"DAZN has been expanding aggressively — merging with ViewLift, a leading provider of streaming and digital solutions deeply embedded in U.S. sports, signaling clear ambitions to break into American local sports markets."

"The experiment of a paid subscription didn't work. Do I think we're going there at some point in the future? Maybe five years, maybe 10 years? I agree with that, but we were early."

"The deal spans Europe and the Americas, excluding the United States."

"It's a tough landscape out here for sports fans. They have a lot of choices. Media partners have a lot of choices of who they want to promote and who they want to distribute. If there's anything I learned from the NFL, it's you innovate or you die."