leeroy*NRL* wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:53 am
makingnrlfansgowacko wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:31 am
leeroy*NRL* wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 2:17 pm
are you saying DAZN who paid over 3 Billion for FOX are willing to loose there biggest Sport and highest rating program ??
which FOX was built on (NRL) and had for over 30 years.
i wasn't aware they they did. im was under the illusion they were different companies and Murdoch still owned Fox. i know fund manager had put a lot of money in to Fox over the years
The deal valued Foxtel at $3.4 billion. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp sold its 65 per cent stake in Foxtel and took a 6 per cent interest in DAZN plus a board seat. Telstra, which owned the remaining 35 per cent, will have a 3 per cent stake in DAZN.
DAZN (pronounced "da zone") has been described as the "Netflix of sports". The company is part of Perform Group, a U.K. based sports media company owned by Len Blavatnik's Access Industries.[47]
DAZN specialise in buying rights to broadcast sports including football, boxing and Formula 1 motor racing, outside of their domestic markets. The sports streaming service is available in Japan, Germany and Canada. [48]
In May 2018, DAZN signed an eight-year, $1 billion deal with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing to stream fights on a new U.S. subscription service.[49]
In June 2018, DAZN paid €600 million for domestic screening rights for Italian Serie A football matches in a three-year deal.[50] The deal was believed to involve 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion) of payments over its three-season lifespan [51]
In October 2018, DAZN signed the largest commercial deal in history with a single athlete when they paid Mexican boxer Saul "Canelo" Alvarez $365 million for the rights to screen 11 fights.[49]
DAZN's last set of published results, for the year to 2019, showed a loss of more than $1.3 billion for continuing and discontinued operations.[48] The company, which is dependent on subscriptions, saw revenue take a hit when the COVID-19 pandemic brought an abrupt halt to live sports.[51] Shortly after the outbreak of the pandemic, DAZN was forced to tell European football leagues that it would not pay for games that had been put on hold.[52] Chief Executive Officer Simon Denyer explained: "With revenues dropping and investment not available, we can only survive by making some hard decisions."[52]
In late 2020, DAZN unveiled a slate of original documentary programming featuring global sporting icons such as Ronaldo and British boxer Anthony Joshua.[51]
In February 2022, Blavatnik agreed a $4.3 billion recapitalisation of DAZN. The Financial Times reported that this would enable the company to target new revenue streams in betting.[53]
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that makes sense why in some artical mentioned wanting to buy the Rugby league in England then
