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That feels quite risky though maybe less do if they keep an FTA partner (and ideally add the Grand Final) but Sky have been squeezing the budgets on their lower profile rights for a few years now and with the PL rights up for grabs again once again other sports will pay the price.

That would be a huge change, I don’t think the sport has ever been off Sky since before Super League’s inception (and they are still using Carpe Diem which must be some sort of record for any Sky Sports-related piece of music). Interesting move for DAZN too, NFL GamePass (which is essentially a separate service being hosted in their app) aside, it would be their highest profile non-boxing acquisition, even though it’s a very regionally concentrated sport.

Part of Dazn’s problem is that they are very reliant on boxing, which itself is reliant on high profile fights every so often , there’s likely to be a segment of the audience effectively treating it as PPV by signing for a month when there’s a big fight (the reason the non-contract price went up to €20pm, of course). So they need stuff that will hold an audience over a longer period.