Clive Dickens, Optus’ VP of TV, audio, content and product development, has departed the business after six nearly years.
Posting on LinkedIn, Dickens listed among his proudest achievements scaling the UEFA 2020 and 2024 Euro Championships, renewing exclusive Premier League and FA Women’s Super League rights through to FY29 and enabling the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
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As mentioned in Stan Sport thread, AFR reports Optus is considering selling its sports streaming business to Nine Entertainment.
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finally the Champions/Europa/Conference League and EPL in one place again!
Good for customers with Nine having an impressive sports portfolio making Stan Sport the home of football. Just need to get the A-Leagues rights to fill in their schedule in between the League and tennis
Hopefully the deal goes through
Would be good to have football on one streamer. If it’s Stan they need to separate Stan and Stan sport.
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They won’t. Why would they pass up an opportunity to upsell?
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I thought Stan Sport was already separate from Stan since it’s an add-on, similar to Stan Event.
It is but to get it you have to get a Stan subscription. Can’t be stand alone.
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Never was stand alone.
Did you think Stan woule miss a chance to upsell? 
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From February 2025, commercial venues across Australia will have access to three live beIN SPORTS channels through the Optus Sport Business streaming solution
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Australian streaming platform Optus Sport grabs the exclusive rights to all NWSL games and highlight packages
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This is how it was in the first place. Yeah, nope I’m not getting sucked in to that.
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If this is true, could this mark the beginning of the end of Optus Sport? The remaining competitions it has the rights to (FA Cup, UEFA Nations League, World Cup UEFA qualifiers, FA Women’s Super League, J-League, K-League) may not be enough to entice subscribers to stay.
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Wasn’t there chatter they were getting out and looking to sub licence the EPL etc?
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Optus sub licencing EPL rights to another platform is different from Optus losing the EPL rights altogether.
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Well it’d be the same thing (imho). They would be sub licensing to get out of the biz.
They’ve still got a long time to run on their rights but seem to be waving the white flag.
“Handing back” the rights is not really possible, the onus is on the rights holder to find someone new to take over the term.
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Yes, Stan were being pursued by Optus to buy Optus Sport and merge.
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