If they can somehow integrate NFL Game Pass to Kayo’s streaming backend, I’d be happy. The DAZN international platform can be a bit mid at times.
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And News Corp will retain a 9% share of Foxtel and own Sky News
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Speculation a while back that 9/Stan are looking at V8’s. I’d also like to see F1 off foxtel as the sky sports coverage has become atrocious really. Seven looking at NBL.
If 10 are losing on free to air and are posturing with streaming as the future then they better get in the mix or they’ll literally have nothing. Their content proposition is looking perilous.
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Seven shouldn’t be criticizing anyone given their chyron is incorrect. News will have 6% and Telstra 3% in DAZN.
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fox / DAZN need to dump the Sky feed and get the world feed off the FIA. the sky feed is too parochial and they actively cheer on brit drivers and it annoys me
Courier Mail is saying “all fox sports operations will m,ove across to DAZN. Sky news australia will contonue to be owned by newscorp and operated byt foxtel”
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And they keep hiring that Danica Patrick as a pundit. Her commentary is worst and she isn’t a very nice person at all. She has got to go.
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It will be interesting to see how this all plays out through the year. Will the average viewer really see any effect next year?
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I’d have to think DAZN would look to further spin off the legacy Foxtel business after integrating the sports component. The purchase makes sense when you look at Fox Sports/Kayo’s market position and the strength of sports programming as a driver of SVOD in Australia - but they are the wrong fit for trying to keep Binge competitive as more streamers enter directly and with Stan highly competitive, and probably won’t particularly care.
You’d sell off Binge as an existing customer base for Discovery+ or something - but not sure who’d want to run the legacy Pay TV service.
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I reckon here’s the split for sports as rights renew:
AFL: Fox/Dazn & 7
Cricket: Fox/Dazn & 7
F1/MotoGP: Netflix & 10
NBL: 10 or 7 & DAZN
Supercars: 9 & Stan
NRL: 10 or 9 & P+ or Stan
some of those more likely than others I know
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If DAZN did divest of the non sports content from the Foxtel acquisition would it be attractive to SWM to acquire the existing customer base to have a subscription platform?
Probably sold to WBD & Max.
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Yes I’d like to see Binge just folded into Max here. WBD would love having the instant subscriber base.
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This whole situation will be extremely interesting to watch unfold.
If DAZN aren’t interested in entertainment, I can definitely see Binge being sold, Foxtel being phased out and solely focusing on Kayo.
I can’t see Foxtel as a service staying around until the end of this decade.
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I reckon DAZN will be keen to keep what they have (and maybe chase more) and try and use it to leverage some overseas rights to local sport. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a broader availability of some of the sports/competitions they’ve already got relationships too
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Could 9 buy it up and the content goes to Stan?
I assume this is Australia’s fiscal calendar, so not for 12 months?
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To me this has gone from bad to maybe worse. I like Kayo and Binge but not their current owners. Don’t really like what I’ve read about DAZN either. My only hope for DAZN would be that they get ALL Football (soccer) back together in one place. It’s so annoying that it’s so many competitions are on so many different platforms at present.
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Optus, maybe?
As others have said already, Binge potentially being bought by WBD is an interesting idea and would certainly make more sense than launching Max from scratch. Watch this space, I guess…?
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If it wasn’t for the sunk costs they have in Satellite fees and iQ 5 boxes, you’d incentivise moving to Kayo/Binge/Flash and kill it. I realistically can’t see anyone buying it as a separable portion.
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