![]() ![]() services in the segment include YouTubeTV, SlingTV, and Hulu + LiveTV, where monthly fees can range from about US$35 for a basic package of channels to about US$70.įuboTV’s U.S. Known as a virtual multichannel video programming distributor, or vMVPD, companies such as fuboTV offer a sort of online-based cable company bundle of channels, with live and on-demand programming. They’re very, very passionate.”Ī high-profile property such as the EPL could help fubo establish itself in a segment of the market that has little awareness among consumers in Canada. “We’re very confident around the appetite for this in Canada and really excited about the fan base. “But certainly, as we were analyzing the opportunity, this made a lot of sense for fubo,” Morbi said. Neither fubo executive would offer an estimate of the potential market of Canadian fans of the EPL, Serie A and Coppa Italia. ![]() That is in a market in which only a handful of matches have ever exceeded one million viewers for English soccer, and more commonly pull in a little over half that figure. In the United States, NBC Sports last year paid more than US$2.7-billion for a new six-year deal, according to reports, or more than US$450-million annually – up sharply from its previous six-year contract, which was valued at US$1-billion. Rights fees for the EPL have skyrocketed in a number of territories. The move is the splashiest yet in this country for fuboTV, a sports-oriented streamer offering a collection of standalone services that includes OneSoccer, MLB Network, and beIN Sports, along with a handful of its own proprietary channels. Fubo had already snapped up the Canadian rights last year to Serie A and Coppa Italia matches, which had been in DAZN’s portfolio. Less than three years ago, the brash new streaming service DAZN made a bold play for Canadian sports fans, snatching the rights to the English Premier League away from TSN and Sportsnet and declaring itself in a triumphal ad campaign to be “The New Home of Football.” Observers called DAZN, which is based in London and backed by billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, “the Netflix of sports,” for its global scale and promise to disrupt the traditional sports-media landscape.īut now the disruptor is getting disrupted, as another upstart in the Canadian market, New York-based fuboTV, is set to announce Thursday morning it has grabbed away those exclusive rights to EPL matches in a new three-year deal. ![]()
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