Awful Announcing
While DAZN owner Len Blavatnik is worth an estimated $25.5 billion, he's looking to outside investors for further money for DAZN, likely in an effort to expand its rights portfolio.
"This is going to supercharge what will already be a lucrative three or four-month period at the end of the year for us."
"If you had $1 billion, that is probably not enough money to compete with the UFC; they're so established and they're so good at what they do. I didn't want to recreate that. Combate, my feeling is very different; I think it's reinventing MMA."
"We know that NFL content is a game-changer for people and it helps to build emerging platforms. It helped to build ESPN, Fox Broadcasting and DirecTV. We’d love for it to help build DAZN."
"We’re definitely interested in looking at the NFL rights. Our strategy is to be a major player in sports rights via OTT, and the U.S. and Canada have the highest penetration of OTT in the world."
Dependent on boxing and MMA, DAZN hopes to build on its current subscriber base
The former head of Fox Sports has a new gig where embracing debate might be more difficult.
DAZN is getting some original content.
STATS now has even more data, and DAZN now has more money to bid for rights.
Skipper said ChangeUp is "pretty clearly intended to send a signal that we are interested in the major sports in this country."
Simmons said "I think both of us found we had such a history together that was mostly really good and rewarding that it would be fun to work together again, even if it was in a pretty small way."
Skipper said "Look, in retrospect, we both in some ways looked a little petulant, foolish. And we would have been more dignified had we said 'Let's get in a room and figure what we're going to do here.'"
DAZN appears to be raising money for rights deals by selling off some of its data operations.
Bill Simmons and John Skipper are going to be podcasting together.
