Promising development:
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Speaking on Footy Prime today, Victor Montagliani revealed that he believes Mediapro and CSB have buried the proverbial hatchet between them, which would suggest the OneSoccer cameras – and all the staff who work on the platform – could be back to business as usual, though perhaps under a new broadcast and distribution agreement.
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https://northerntribune.ca/mediapro-...liani-comment/
This might be the win-win that we need. I can't see anyone else willing or able to produce the games, especially after the Bell hack and slash yesterday. CSB needs someone to produce the matches, regardless of where they are distributed, and MediaPro does that.
As for distribution - hopefully this means that MediaPro has now been forced to explore more sub-licensing agreements with other broadcasters instead sitting on it waiting for a) a big payday that will never come, or b) more OneSoccer subscriptions.
And call me crazy, but when I watched a Concacaf match on Tuesday, all promo spots, highlights, filler, etc. from CPL seemed to be scrubbed, and the only stuff they were showing was related to the competitions that they still had the rights for (Concacaf). Then on Wednesday's matches there was CPL stuff again.
Maybe OneSoccer doesn't have anything else to fill it with (very possible), but I also don't think that they would be promoting competitions that they were in a legal dispute with. So maybe nothing, but maybe a subtly positive observation.