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Report: DAZN to Acquire UK’s BT Sport - And Its Premier League Broadcasting Rights

Jeff Kotuby
Jeff Kotuby is a contributing writer to The Streamable who specializes in sports, music, and all things Japanese media. He cut the cord in 2017 and has spent the last six years of his career writing for technology, entertainment, and healthcare websites. He's a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles and Anaheim Ducks fan, but also enjoys watching animated shows from the '90s.
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DAZN’s latest move could very well make it the overseas streaming giant it’s always wanted to be.

According to the Financial Times, DAZN is in “advanced talks” to purchase BT Group, which in turn would give them BT Sport — and English Premier League rights. Back in July, this deal was rumored to happen but didn't materialize. Now, DAZN can become a major player in UK’s broadcasting game if they were to pull off this deal.

Currently, DAZN owns the overseas broadcasting rights to a number of different domestic and international sports leagues, including the big four American sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL,) multiple soccer federations (UEFA, FIFA, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, etc.) as well as sports that are popular overseas like handball, darts, rugby, cricket, and more. They also own global rights to the UEFA Women's Champions League which they purchased back in June.

Securing rights to major sports is right in line with what former DAZN (and ESPN) head and current Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper said regarding sports rights — you can’t build a platform simply on secondary and tertiary sports. “At DAZN we tried secondary sports and tertiary sports, thinking ‘they can’t work on pay-tv, but there are 17 million hardcore badminton fans,” Skipper said to Bloomberg. “We just gotta get 9% to sign up and you’ve got 300,000 people.’ None of that stuff works. What works is top of the pyramid rights that people have to see.” With this proposed move, DAZN is skipping right to the very top of the sports pyramid in the UK to bring football to its airwaves.

Currently, four companies own broadcasting rights for English Premier League football in the UK — Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video, and BBC Sport. DAZN would love to join the pantheon of football broadcasters overseas because, at that point, anything can happen, especially with the current rights deal expiring in 2025.

Jeff Kotuby
Jeff Kotuby is a contributing writer to The Streamable who specializes in sports, music, and all things Japanese media. He cut the cord in 2017 and has spent the last six years of his career writing for technology, entertainment, and healthcare websites. He's a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles and Anaheim Ducks fan, but also enjoys watching animated shows from the '90s.
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