DAZN withholding rights fees for canceled sporting events

[MMALOPEZ]

The streaming platform is believed to be the first media company with U.S. distribution to do this.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2020/3/...eled-sporting-events-boxing-news-bellator-mlb

 

[JayE]

With how leveraged DAZN is, I think people have to wonder if it's still going to exist by the time boxing resumes in full.

 

[Yacob]

With how leveraged DAZN is, I think people have to wonder if it's still going to exist by the time boxing resumes in full.

My subscription will be up by the time things get back

Glad i got 40 dollars worth of that 100 committed....

 

[Shoemaker]

With how leveraged DAZN is, I think people have to wonder if it's still going to exist by the time boxing resumes in full.

Didn’t think about that. I might just cancel my sub - it’s coming up for renewal and I don’t watch any of their other content.

 

[HardasNAILZ]

With how leveraged DAZN is, I think people have to wonder if it's still going to exist by the time boxing resumes in full.

Correct, can’t see it surviving in my opinion.

 

[Boxiana]

“Force majeure”

I guess if they can also get out of paying their fighters in this down time, they might survive.

I am ready to watch and pay for any fight once this is over!

 

[CatchnShoot]

Can't blame them... it's going to be a whole reboot when things resume. However, I do believe that they SHOULD provide service extensions for this time period when no content is being provided. You can't have it both ways.

 

[JayE]

Didn’t think about that. I might just cancel my sub - it’s coming up for renewal and I don’t watch any of their other content.

Here in Canada it's got a lot of other content that I do watch, but I'm expecting, at the very least, for them to scale back pretty significantly when this is over. It was already a very ambitious business plan at the best of times.