Marchand Sports Media Netflix vs. Amazon, the behemoth battle lurking on next NFL, MLB deals and beyond
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In the 42-minute podcast, MoffettNathanson’s Robert Fishman joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand” to discuss his belief of how Netflix could change the way the NFL is presented, MLB/UFC/F1’s next rights deals, the legacy media forthcoming sports pricing dilemma, Google-YouTube’s “king of all media” potential sports aggregator status, what Disney-ESPN-Hulu should be doing and the battle between Amazon and Netflix.
Here’s what you need to know:
* “Netflix is going to keep getting bigger and better in sports,” Fishman says
* How Netflix could end up with the top NFL games by the end of the decade
* Will the traditional networks be able to afford what the NFL wants to be paid for top games by the end of the decade
* Where Netflix could be on UFC, ESPN’s MLB opt-out package and F1
* Did ESPN make the right move in opting out of its MLB package
* Will MLB come close to the $550 million per year average for ESPN’s opt-out package
* What should MLB be trying to do by 2028 when all its media deals are up
* Can MLB shift regular season regional dollars to national ones
* Where does Fox stand after being the winners of the first round of the sports streaming wars
* Will Fox’s DTC pricing playbook be similar to Disney/ESPN’s
* How ESPN/Disney/Hulu must simplify its price point as NBC/Peacock and CBS/Paramount + have done
* How YouTube could be the great sports aggregator of the future
* Could Netflix recreate what Fox did in the mid-to-late 1990s
* If Fishman were to put money on who will be the biggest sports streamers by the end of the decade, he would say …
* Where does Apple stand in the sports streaming game
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Links to Related Sports Media Podcasts
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* The Great Rebundling and Google YouTube with John Ourand
* The future of sports radio with the most powerful executive in the business, Chris Oliviero
* The future of baseball & local rights with SNY president Steve Raab
* Rick Cordella explains NBC’s NBA logic and how sports drive Peacock
* How Fox won the first sports streaming war
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